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Vincent Battiloro, an 18-year-old Cranford, New Jersey man now charged with two counts of first-degree murder, became the story not only for what prosecutors allege he did on September 29, 2025 — deliberately striking teen girls Maria Niotis and Isabella Salas with a Jeep Compass as they rode electric bikes — but for what he did the following day: he opened a YouTube gaming stream and explained, without apparent embarrassment, how his viewers' outrage was generating revenue.
His case was transferred to adult court on June 26, and the attorney representing one victim's family says a separate thread of questions about alleged swatting incidents in the weeks before the killings has yet to be answered.
The Alleged Attack on Burnside Avenue Prosecutors say Battiloro's own dash camera recorded the sequence.
The footage shows him entering a Jeep Compass on September 29, driving to the area of Burnside Avenue in Cranford near the home of one of the victims, and parking.
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