A Grove City, Ohio, father faces felonious assault charges after allegedly posing as his 11-year-old daughter on TikTok to lure the man accused of raping her back to their apartment, where he shot the suspect twice.
The shooting followed a report of child sexual assault made to police on 15 July 2026, after the girl's mother discovered video evidence on her daughter's phone. The suspect, identified by police as Diego Montoya Gonzalez, was shot the following day and later charged with rape, pandering sexually oriented material involving a minor, and obstructing official business. The father now faces his own felony charges, in a case that has drawn national attention to how Ohio's justice system treats vigilante violence against accused child predators.
