Woman accuses homeless man of assaulting her after he received $400K in donations

A TikTok video of a college student interning in Washington D.C. and buying a homeless man tea is going viral. However, a woman has now accused the homeless man of assaulting her.

A homeless man at the center of a heartwarming TikTok video that led to over $400,000 in donations allegedly has a violent past, according to a report.

A viral video posted on social media on February 1 showed a college student walking by a man begging for tea before the two ended up spending the day together.

The student who recorded the TikTok video, named Sanai Graden, told WUSA9 that she saw the man “in pain” and decided to help him. She then created a fundraising account so that others could help him too, which has now raised $400,000 for the man.

“I just didn’t want to leave him with just tea. I wanted to leave him with more so like I tried to help him as much as I could. So that’s why you saw me running around all over D.C.,” Graden said. “He was in pain, it was really hard to watch and I’m like no I want to post this.”

Woman accuses homeless man of assaulting her after fundraiser

According to FOX 5 Washington DC, a woman, who wishes to remain anonymous, was the victim of an assault in June 2020, as she was sleeping outside Foundry United Methodist Church on P Street in Northwest Washington, D.C. 

Security video of the incident shows Hebron placing a scarf on the victim who was asleep when he suddenly began to repeatedly punch her, leaving the victim with several bruises on her face.

According to the Department of Justice, Hebron has a criminal history that included an assault in 2012, when he was sentenced to five years in prison. During that incident, Hebron was convicted of stabbing a man in the neck with a screwdriver in Washington, D.C., FOX 5 reported.

Despite this, the victim said she doesn’t blame Graden for helping him.

“I was heartbroken,” she said after watching the TikTok video of the good deed. “First of all – kudos to the woman who did this. She meant well, and I do applaud her for that. I know it was a lot of work for her to do so, but portraying him as something he just simply isn’t…”

“I do not understand how a human being can act like this. He’s a sociopath. He does not have a sense of remorse,” the victim told the outlet.

In the fundraiser, Graden said she did not know the man’s criminal history but that he shared his medical troubles.

“After walking and talking, he decided to open up about his current situation. I’ve learned that he’s homeless, has no family, and currently has prostate cancer. I then offered him food, and he didn’t want to accept. I informed him that if he needed anything to let me know,” she wrote.

The fundraiser remains open to donations.