A Detroit man who was gifted $100,000 for being kind to an influencer was later kidnapped and robbed by his own family trying to steal his windfall, police said.
Curtis Dixon was ready to pawn his wedding ring to pay bills last month when he came across a blind man in need of help.
It turned out the man was pretending he was unable to see and was actually TikTok influencer Zachery Dereniowski, who gave Dixon $1,000 for his act of kindness .
The two men shared an emotional moment in which Dixon told him how desperately he needed the money, prompting Dereniowski, who goes by mdmotivator online, to arrange a GoFundMe that raised $100,000 and helped buy Dixon a new car.
But rather than be happy for the man, his nephew, Roland Terrell Chatmon, orchestrated a plot to rob and kidnap Dixon,