A hard-up Detroit man who was surprised with $100,000 for being nice to an influencer was later kidnapped, beaten and left tied up inside a burning car by some of his own relatives trying to steal his windfall, according to cops.
Curtis Dixon had been planning to pawn his wedding ring to pay bills last month when he unknowingly ran into Zach Dereniowski, a TikTokker with 24 million viewers who was pretending to be blind.
Dereniowski surprised him with $1,000 for helping him — then arranged a GoFundMe that raised $100,000 and helped buy Dixon a new car.
But the elderly man’s tears of joy turned into a nightmare when his nephew, Roland Terrell Chatmon, allegedly hatched a plan to steal his uncle’s windfall, according to a criminal complaint…