Alex Choi
Los Angeles car creator who built a run of custom Lamborghini Huracáns on YouTube and now films police activity, crashes and fires around the city at night.
Lifestyle · Instagram · Updated Sep 26, 2026
Alex Choi is a car creator in Los Angeles who got famous as a teenager for rebuilding one Lamborghini Huracán over and over: the Unicorn builds, from a twin-turbo rally car in 2019 to a street-legal Super Trofeo Evo race car. A 2023 video of fireworks fired from a helicopter at a Lamborghini led to a federal charge, dismissed in July 2025 after pretrial diversion. Since then he has turned to nightcrawling, filming police activity, crashes and fires around LA, and his Palisades fire footage passed 670 million Snapchat views, per Reuters. About 2.1 million people follow him on Instagram and about 950,000 subscribe on YouTube.
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Who is Alex Choi?
Alex Choi is a 26-year-old creator in Los Angeles. He started with supercar builds on Instagram in 2016 and YouTube in 2017, and now films the city at night: police activity, crashes and fires, often arriving before responders, per LA Material. He has about 2.1 million followers on Instagram and about 950,000 subscribers on YouTube.
What is Alex Choi’s Lambo?
A Lamborghini Huracán he rebuilt into a series he calls Unicorn. Unicorn V3, unveiled in April 2019, was a twin-turbo rally car with a steel exoskeleton and more than 40 lights, per duPont Registry. Unicorn V4 was a Huracán Super Trofeo Evo race car he made street legal, and in 2022 he used it to tow a Lamborghini Urus. His first big video was a Lamborghini too: “Lamborghini Launch Control Reaction Compilation,” about 10 million views.
What is Alex Choi’s Porsche GT3?
His nightcrawling car: a matte-black Porsche he showed off earlier in 2026, fitted with a remote-controlled spotlight and a night-vision camera, per LA Material. His Short “Nightcrawler Porsche GT3” has about 2.3 million views. The older GT3 in his searches is the Huracán, which he wrapped and built in a GT3 race style in 2018.
What happened with Alex Choi and the helicopter fireworks?
On July 4, 2023 he posted a video in which two women in a low-flying helicopter fired fireworks at a moving Lamborghini on the El Mirage Dry Lakebed. In June 2024 federal prosecutors charged him with one count of causing the placement of an explosive or incendiary device on an aircraft; the Justice Department said the shoot had no permits and the fireworks were bought in Nevada. He pleaded not guilty in July 2024, per ABC7. In July 2025 the case was dismissed with prejudice after he completed pretrial diversion, per NBC Los Angeles. We did not find a statement from him in major press.
Is Alex Choi on Snapchat?
Snapchat is where his nightcrawling broke out. In January 2025 Reuters reported his Palisades fire footage there at nearly 673 million views, and he said he keeps it “not too disturbing to watch as a 13- or 14-year-old kid.” We could not confirm a current public Snapchat profile, so we do not link one.
How old is Alex Choi?
He is 26. Famous Birthdays lists October 25, 1999, in Seoul. He was 19 when the Unicorn V3 came out.
What is Alex Choi’s real name?
Suk Min Choi, as printed in federal court filings and reported by NBC Los Angeles. He goes by Alex Choi everywhere.
Where can I watch Alex Choi?
Instagram @alex.choi for the nightcrawling clips, and YouTube @AlexChoi1 for the Shorts and the older Lamborghini build videos.
What is Alex Choi’s net worth?
He does not publish a number and neither do we.
Who are Alex Choi’s parents?
Not something we cover.
Who represents Alex Choi?
His YouTube channel lists a business email. Ames Create does not represent him; we cover him because he has rebuilt his channel once already, from supercar builds to live street news, and people keep searching to catch up. If that changes, this entry will say so.
Our read
Ames Create does not work with Alex Choi. This is our view, from a team that works on creator brands for a living.
The format. Both eras run on the same thing: something you should not be able to film. First it was a Lamborghini turned into a rally car. Now it is a crash or a fire in real time, shot from the street before the news vans arrive.
Why it travels. Raw vertical footage of a live event needs no setup and gets shared as news, not as a creator video. He has also said he aims it at a younger audience, and Snapchat’s young audience is where it hit hardest.
Brand fit. Car parts, wraps and camera gear fit the build years. The current work sits next to real emergencies and has a federal case in its history, so for most consumer brands the honest answer is nobody right now. Camera, lighting and news partners are the realistic exceptions.
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Sources: Alex Choi’s YouTube and Instagram; Justice Department, June 2024; ABC7, July 2024; NBC Los Angeles, July 2025; Reuters, January 2025; LA Material, June 2026; duPont Registry, April 2019 and June 2022; Robb Report; Famous Birthdays. Follower counts via Social Blade, September 2026.
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