{"id":222469,"date":"2026-05-06T21:19:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T21:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/222469\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T21:19:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T21:19:36","slug":"news-12-bronx-tiktoker-accused-in-teens-stabbing-death-misses-court-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/222469\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Tiktoker Accused In Teens Stabbing Death Misses Court Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A local TikToker accused of <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/17-year-old-boy-fatally-stabbed-in-soundview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stabbing a teenager to death<\/a> did not appear in court Tuesday, despite a large crowd of the victim&#8217;s loved ones gathering at Bronx Criminal Court.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Family and friends of 17-year-old Jonathan Melo packed the courthouse, hoping to face <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/family-grieves-loss-of-bronx-high-school-senior-weeks-before-graduation\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">22-year-old Andrew Tollinche, also known online as &#8220;DBG.&#8221;<\/a> Instead, they were told Tollinche would not be appearing.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Tollinche is facing murder, manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon charges in connection with Melo&#8217;s death. He&#8217;s accused of stabbing him in the back with a knife on Wednesday, April 29. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Tollinche was in court Monday on separate charges connected to an alleged rape case involving a minor. But today his appearance was waived. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Outside the courthouse, Melo&#8217;s family, friends and supporters held signs and necklaces with photos of the teen while demanding justice. Several spoke with News 12 about the pain of losing him.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">They say the loss has been devastating and vow to continue fighting for justice in his name.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Tollinche is due back in court on June 2.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">MORE: <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/tiktoker-charged-in-deadly-parkchester-stabbing-has-disturbing-online-history\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chilling image shows moment police say TikToker fatally stabbed teen in Parkchester<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A local TikToker accused of stabbing a teenager to death did not appear in court Tuesday, despite a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-222469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}