{"id":43449,"date":"2025-11-18T11:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T11:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/43449\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T11:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T11:17:10","slug":"tiktok-star-maurice-harrison-shot-dead-by-longtime-boyfriend-in-florida-after-getting-into-heated-argument-inside-his-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/43449\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok star Maurice Harrison shot dead by longtime boyfriend in Florida after getting into heated argument inside his car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A TikTok star \u2014 self-dubbed the \u201cwig influencer\u201d \u2014 was shot dead by her longtime boyfriend in Florida after the couple got into a heated argument inside his car. <\/p>\n<p>Maurice Harrison, 21, who went by @Girlalala across social media, was found suffering from multiple gunshot wounds inside the passenger seat of a vehicle in Lauderdale Lakes on Friday at around 7 p.m., the Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheriff.org\/PIO\/BSONews\/Pages\/BSO-DETECTIVES-INVESTIGATE-LAUDERDALE-LAKES-SHOOTING.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The social media star was rushed to a local hospital, where they were pronounced dead, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Maurice Harrison was found suffering from multiple gunshot wounds inside the passenger seat of a vehicle in Lauderdale Lakes on Friday. @_girlalalala\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>The suspected killer \u2014 Harrison\u2019s boyfriend of seven years, Shanoyd Whyte Jr. \u2014 was arrested at the scene, where police also recovered a firearm.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators determined that the couple had been \u201cengaged in a verbal argument which turned physical while inside of Whyte Jr.\u2019s vehicle,\u201d prior to the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt some point, the victim was shot while sitting in the car,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance footage is believed to have captured Harrison\u2019s final moments before she was shot and killed, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/man-arrested-in-murder-of-tiktok-influencer-girlalala-in-lauderdale-lakes-bso\/3722153\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">NBC Miami<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>In the footage, Whyte Jr., 25, is seen stepping out of his car with what appears to be a gun as the influencer leans out of the passenger door, before he walks over and pushes her back inside.<\/p>\n<p>Shanoyd Whyte Jr., 25, is facing a first-degree murder charge for the murder of Harrison. Broward Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/p>\n<p>Whyte Jr. \u2014 a former defensive lineman on the football team at Bethune-Cookman University \u2014 is currently locked up at the Broward County Jail and is being held without bond.<\/p>\n<p>He has been charged with first-degree murder with a firearm.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Harrison, a hairstylist from Pompano Beach, Fla., amassed more than 235,000 followers on TikTok before the account was deactivated, according to NBC Miami. <\/p>\n<p>Her still-active Instagram page has over 41,000 followers.<\/p>\n<p>She was known to her fans for her colorful, creative hairstyles and referred to herself as a \u201cwig influencer\u201d in her TikTok bio.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old influencer went by @Girlalala across social media. @_girlalalala\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0GoFundMe\u00a0was launched by her family to help with the TikTok star\u2019s funeral expenses. <\/p>\n<p>One of the donations included a $5,000 gift from City Girls rapper JT.<\/p>\n<p>The rapper, 32, also paid a touching tribute to Harrison on her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reels\/DRGDHr9ka4x\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a>, posting a clip of them having fun onstage at a nightclub.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRest beautiful girlala! We love you &amp; Heaven will never be boring now that you are there, your boldness, energy, humor &amp; beauty will be missed! You never missed a chance to show me love &amp; for that I\u2019m forever grateful,\u201d JT wrote.<\/p>\n<p>She was known to her fans for her colorful, creative hairstyles and referred to herself as a \u201cwig influencer\u201d in her TikTok bio. @_girlalalala\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sorry this happened to you!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cGirls Gone Wild\u201d rapper included the hashtags \u201c#protecttranswomen\u201d and \u201c#protectblackwomen,\u201d and called on her followers to \u201cprotect feminism as a whole!\u201d in the post.<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of her death, fans circulated past videos suggesting Harrison and Whyte Jr. had a tumultuous, toxic relationship, NBC Miami reported.<\/p>\n<p>One video showed her with a cut on her nose and under her eye,\u2028claiming that they were always fighting.<\/p>\n<p>If found guilty of first-degree murder with a firearm, Whyte Jr. could face a maximum sentence of either the death penalty or life in prison without the possibility of parole under Florida law.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A TikTok star \u2014 self-dubbed the \u201cwig influencer\u201d \u2014 was shot dead by her longtime boyfriend in Florida&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[303,3640,4686,238,9,11,10,9740,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-43449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-crime","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-influencers","11":"tag-murders","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-tiktok","16":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43449","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=43449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}