JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A new report gives detail on an 18-year-old who was arrested on a video voyeurism charge Wednesday after a video went viral showing customers in a Jacksonville Marshalls store confronting the teen they said was recording women in the restroom.
Titus Hugh McDonell remains in Duval County jail on a $35,003 bond. His arrest stems from an incident on March 12 in which two women told police they saw a man recording customers inside the women's restroom at the Marshalls store on River Marsh Drive.
Video of the women confronting the man quickly spread across social media platforms including TikTok and Instagram.
"You violated our *expletive* privacy," one woman shouted in the video. "You are so *expletive* sick for that."
The video included an image taken inside one of the bathroom stalls, showing a phone propped up between a person's shoes.
Several social media users under the comments section of the video said that customers tried to keep McDonell from leaving before police arrived, but he ran.
The JSO incident report states, "Several officers searched the area and concluded with negative results."
After a photo of McDonell was posted on JSO's Instagram, as part of a series called 'Wanted Wednesday,' the post returned "several tips from citizens," according to the arrest report obtained by First Coast News on Monday. One tip provided that McDonell was seen driving a black Toyota Corolla with Florida tag: 31DCXM, the report states.
A search by police with that vehicle information, revealed that the registered owner is James R. Schock, 53, the report states.
On March 20 at approximately 5 p.m., an officer and the "D3 task force" were informed of a lead on the Toyota, the report states, as it was located in the parking lot of a McDonalds that is in the same shopping center where the Marshalls incident took place. The officer and the task force then detained McDonell who was seated in the driver's seat.
McDonell told police that he "had no business" being in the women's restroom at the Marshalls, but said he was in there because he checked the men's restroom and the stalls were already occupied, according to the report. He also said he was using his girlfriend's phone at the time he was in the restroom since his broke, and to "watch YouTube and stuff," the report states.
"The suspect [McDonell] was then asked about his girlfriend, and he provided her name as Riley Schock and advised that she worked at Chick-Fil-A in the same shopping center," the report states. "It was discovered that Riley Schock is the daughter of James R. Schock, the registered owner of the vehicle the suspect was driving when detained."
After McDonell denied the allegations several times through a series of questions, the officer questioning him said, "Just let it out Titus," to which the teen then told police he "was just excited."
"I mean I feel so ashamed, so bad, I feel so stupid," McDonell said in the report. "I don't even know why I did it. I was just excited, and my girlfriend was at work, and like, I don't know, it was just stupid. It wasn't even anything, it didn't even like get anything, they still had their clothes on."
McDonell's arrest report further details that Riley's phone, a "black iPhone that had a clear phone case with a white sticker on the back that had a blue and purple watercolor design," was seized as evidence. The description of the phone matches the one pictured in the video.
Court records show a public defender was appointed to McDonell on Thursday following his arrest.
If released from jail, McDonell's arrest report states that he is not allowed to return to the Marshalls, he is prohibited from using the internet and is ordered to not have any contact with the victim(s) and/or witnesses. His next court appearance is scheduled for May 15 at 9 a.m.
