Justin Guzman (TikTok)

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About

Justin Guzman was a TikToker and Kick streamer known for his lip dub and comedy skit videos, often wearing a tracksuit and sporting a haircut that has drawn comparisons to Vector from Despicable Me. Guzman garnered a significant following on TikTok throughout the 2020s, often needing to migrate to new accounts as his old ones were regularly banned. On June 30th, 2025, Guzman turned himself in to the police for his part in the alleged murder of 30-year-old Anthony Sanders in Houston, Texas, resulting in him and another suspect and accomplice, Marko Cinan, being charged with murder. At the time of his arrest, his known, active TikTok accounts were @guzmanhimself1 and @guzmanbackup9.

History

It is unclear exactly when Justin Guzman first started posting content online. His earliest available content is a video posted on August 17th, 2023, to the @GuzmanHimself1 TikTok^[1] account, in which he and a friend yell in the middle of a bookstore, garnering over 230,000 views in two years.

The account description reads, "guzman backup lost main at 136k," suggesting this is not his first account. Guzman would also post videos to the @guzmanbackup9 TikTok^[2] account.

The most popular video on the @guzmanhimself1 TikTok^[3] account was posted on March 13th, 2025, and shows Guzman doing a dance and lip dub in a fast-food restaurant with two friends, garnering over 1.4 million views in four months.

On March 19th, the TikToker^[4] posted a video that garnered over 1.3 million views in the same span of time. On June 3rd, Guzman hosted his first IRL live stream on Kick,^[5] gaining over 5,200 views in a month.

June 2025 Arrest

On June 30th, 2025, KHOU-11^[6] reported that Justin Guzman was in custody after turning himself in for the shooting of 30-year-old Anthony Sanders in a parking garage at The Galleria shopping mall in Houston, Texas, on June 3rd, 2025. An accomplice, Marko Cinan, was already in custody.

According to the report, Sanders was driving around the garage looking for his fiancée. When he found her, she told him that a group of men – presumably Guzman and Cinan – made comments to her. Sanders drove around looking for them. Allegedly, they brake-checked Sanders' car, Sanders, Guzman and Cinana all got out of their cars, and allegedly they began shooting at Guzman and continued shooting as they drove from the scene.

On July 1st, X^[7] user @FearBucked reposted a video compiling an image of Guzman with footage of him turning himself in to the police, garnering over 11,000 likes in under a day.

Justin Guzman's arrest was widely shared on social media and reported on in the media in late June and July 2025.

On July 1st, 2025, the @DramaAlert X^[8] account reported on it. On the same day, X^[9] user @unlimited_ls shared the story, garnering over 300 likes in under a day.