Overview

• Culver City police identified the suspect as 33-year-old Joseph Mayuyo after employees reported multiple threats across social media.
• TikTok’s security evacuated the Culver City office on Oct. 3 out of caution as detectives pursued the case and secured search and arrest warrants.
• Investigators say Mayuyo posted that he “would not be taken alive,” before the Emergency Response Team and crisis negotiators engaged him and he exited his home without incident.
• A search of his Hawthorne residence recovered items described as having evidentiary value, and he was booked on suspicion of making criminal threats.
• Police have not disclosed the content of the alleged threats or a motive, and county inmate records listed him as held without bail as the investigation continues.