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The Los Angeles Police Department said in a social mediastatementthat the incident, which took place at 12:10 a.m. on Sunday in Echo Park, involved an unknown driver of a 2018 Tesla S-BLM. The driver performed a dangerous, high-speed stunt that sent the vehicle flying before it slammed onto a steep residential street, colliding with two vehicles.
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LAPD later shared that they are no longer asking for the public’s assistance afterseveral tipsallegedly identified the driver as social media influencer Dominykas Zeglaitis (known asDurte Dom), who was previously part ofDavid Dobrik’s Vlog Squad.
Zeglaitisclaimed to be responsiblefor the incident on his YouTube channel, which has 810,000 subscribers.
“I just crashed my new Tesla,” he wrote alongside a video of him behind the wheel before cutting to the clip of the vehicle flying through the air.
The same video has since been deleted from his TikTok account, which has 2.7 million followers. In another TikTok video, Zeglaitisclaimed to be intoxicatedduring the stunt while another post shows the influencer mocking the LAPD’s investigation of the incident.
“LAPD didn’t like my stunt,” hewrotealongside a clip paired with N.W.A’s “F— Tha Police,” adding, “look mom i’m famous,” in anotherclip.
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Zeglaitis did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment. Police say they have reached out to Zeglaitis as aperson of interestbased on his social media posts but no arrests have been made.
“Over 90% of the tips are of the same person who has a TikTok handle of @dominykas or @durtedom on Twitter,” LAPD’s Central Traffic Divisiontweeted. “He is considered a person of interest based on the public postings on his account.”
source: people.com
