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A Facebook Live video that showed a gruesome killing this week quickly went viral. The video showed a Miami woman going to a hotel on Valentine’s Day to catch her husband, who she suspected of cheating on her. As another person records, she enters the room using a key card.
In the opening of the video, she claims that she went to Wal-Mart to buy tampons and her card was declined. She claims there was a charge on the bank account she shared with her husband for a room at a Comfort Inn hotel. Shortly after entering the room, the camera shows two men bathing romantically in a bathtub while music is playing. The outraged woman then picks up a radio and throws it into the bathtub. One man jumps out of the tub as the other one convulses from being electrocuted. Along with the video is a screenshot of the woman’s booking information that states her name as Acesha Bright, along with the charge of a premeditated double murder.
The video was supposedly being live-streamed on Facebook Live and seemed to be another tragedy played out on social media. Now the whole thing has been revealed as a hoax. The first clue was the bad acting in the video and the second was the booking photo image. The booking information lists her as being arrested on Feb. 11, 2017, not on Valentine’s Day and the woman in the video is not Acesha Bright. Bright was in fact arrested for hitting her boyfriend with her car in a domestic dispute but not for murder. In addition, the woman in the video according to Facebook posts is an actress named Opal Culton.
The skit was the brainchild of a viral video maker called Dominic Low on Facebook. The video has garnered over two million views and numerous comments but it now could backfire. Because Low used Bright’s image, he could be the target of a future defamation suit.
