A TikTok star who goes by Timbo the Redneck died in an accident in Florida.
According to his family member Tony, Timbo—real name Timothy Hall—was doing donuts in his pickup truck in a friend’s yard when he was thrown from the vehicle. Tony revealed the story in a YouTube video.
“I don’t even know where to start this,” he said, explaining that the 18-year-old Timbo “was doing donuts with his girlfriend and the truck just flipped over and he flew out the driver’s side window and the truck landed on top of him.”
The incident happened on Saturday, with Timbo’s mother later confirming the news in a TikTok video shared to Timbo’s Instagram and TikTok pages.
“He won’t be making any more videos, no more videos at all,” she said. “My son was in a bad accident yesterday and didn’t make it, and I want to thank everybody for all the fans that he had. He loved TikTok and just believed in all the fans and everybody that supported him, and it meant a lot to him. Sometimes he wouldn’t listen to me, he’d say, ‘I gotta do this TikTok!’”
Timbo the Redneck amassed over 200,000 TikTok followers from his Jennings, Florida home, where he would record videos of his truck and his time hanging out with his friends. The Orlando Sentinel writes that Timbo graduated high school this was and was “a proud Trump supporter” who posted “controversial Confederate comedy videos, typically detailing life in the South.” These topics included “fishing, truck stunts, and dipping.”
“I’m just making this video because I love Timbo and I know you guys cared about him too, even though you didn’t know him personally,” said Tony, who also appeared in Timbo’s TikToks. “He touched me in a way that I can’t explain, and he was one of those types of people where you don’t meet those types of people every day. He was a special kind of person.”
The family raised nearly $9,500 via GoFundMe to pay for funeral costs.
