NYC TikTok attacks: Man charged in assault of Halley Kate, NYPD investigates 6 others [Video]

CHELSEA, Manhattan (WABC) — A 40-year-old man has been charged in the assault of a TikTok influencer in Chelsea earlier this week as several women have come forward to share similar stories.

Influencer Halley McGookin — who goes by “Halley Kate” — made a tearful video recalling an attack on March 25 near W 16th St and 7th Avenue.

McGookin posted several times about the assault on social media and within a few days, her story has gotten over five million likes.

Skiboky Stora has since been charged in the attack. He was held on $10,000 bail at his arraignment on Thursday.

When shown surveillance video recovered from near Monday morning’s attack, Stora told detectives, “Yeah that’s me walking my dog.”

Stora himself has somewhat of a following on Instagram. He maintains multiple TikTok accounts showing him aggressively approaching police and strangers, many of them women.

This incident comes on the heels of a recent wave of …