WARNING: GRAPHIC VIDEO BELOW
On March 25, two young cousins were on Instagram Live in St. Louis when one child shot the other before killing herself.
Twelve-year-old Paris Harvey and 14-year-old Kuaron Harvey were making an Instagram live video in a bathroom. Paris had the gun to Kuaron’s head and the gun went off, and afterward, the video showed Paris reaching for the gun as it went off again.
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Paris’ grandmother, Susan Dyson, told the St. Louis Dispatch that she saw the video that the two cousins were making.
“It wasn’t a situation where they were arguing or anything like that,” Dyson said. “They were playing with the gun, when they shouldn’t have been. Of course, they shouldn’t have been doing it. I think it just went off. It went off by mistake.”
Paris’ mother, Shinise Harvey, described the shootings as a freak accident, not a murder. Shinise hadn’t seen the video, but family members described it to her.
Police are still investigating the incident and initially described it as a murder-suicide.
