A TikTok star recruited her dad to kill her boy band baby daddy, officials say
Gabriela Gonzalez, a 24-year-old TikTok star, has been arrested for allegedly plotting to kill her ex-boyfriend, Jack Avery, the father of her child. She is accused of enlisting her father and ex-boyfriend to assist in the murder-for-hire scheme, which involved payments made to a supposed hitman. If convicted, Gonzalez and her accomplices could face significant prison time for their actions.
- ▪Gabriela Gonzalez was charged with attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and solicitation of murder.
- ▪Her father, Francisco Gonzalez, allegedly sent $10,000 to help hire a hitman to kill Jack Avery.
- ▪The plot was uncovered during an investigation initiated by the FBI, leading to criminal charges being filed against the trio.
NBC News — Top files mainly under news. We currently carry 565 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
inspect →
Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | NBC News — Top |
| Canonical URL | https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tiktok-star-recruited-dad-kill-boy-band-baby-daddy-officials-say-rcna346063 |
| Publication time | Wed, 20 May 2026 15:56:41 GMT |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-20T16:05:02.641Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-20T16:05:02.641Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | NkDJckzN2SYZ |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
U.S. newsA TikTok star recruited her dad to kill her boy band baby daddy, officials sayGabriela Gonzalez, 24, is accused of trying to hire someone to kill the father of her 7-year-old child, Why We Don’t singer Jack Avery. Listen to this article with a free account00:0000:00Jack Avery of Why Don't We performs in 2019. Paras Griffin / Getty Images for iHeartMedia fileShareAdd NBC News to GoogleMay 20, 2026, 11:56 AM EDTBy Matt LavietesA TikTok star was arrested in California this week and accused of trying to hire someone to kill the father of her daughter, boy band singer Jack Avery.Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.Gabriela Gonzalez — a 24-year-old influencer with nearly half a million followers on TikTok — was charged…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at NBC News — Top.
Discussion
0 commentsMore from NBC News — Top
