Influencer charged after 2025 stabbing during confrontation to catch alleged child predators

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A online influencer has been charged in connection to an alleged incident where the influencer was allegedly stabbed in Jamestown last December, according to Jamestown police.

Nicholas Attalla, known online as “Niky Sal,” was alleged stabbed at a Tim Hortons on South Main Street in Jamestown last December. Attalla operates undercover social media pages posing as an underage child in an effort to catch adults who prey upon minors.

Police said that Attalla, who lives in Erie, Pa., confronted 43-year-old James Morris and 42-year-old Eric Spencer at the Tim Hortons on Dec. 13, 2025 and accused Morris of attempting to meet up with a 14-year-old girl and threatened him based “solely off the phone conversation and his voice,” police said…

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