Two Cousins, 12 And 14, Killed While Playing With Gun On Instagram Live
A family is left heartbroken following an accidental shooting involving two children.
According to the Daily Mail, two young cousins were livestreaming from a St. Louis apartment when one child fatally shot the other before killing herself, St. Louis police shared. 12-year-old Paris Harvey and 14-year-old Kuaron Harvey were alone in a bathroom making a video in the mirror before Paris accidentally shot Kuaron. Officers told the outlet that the cousins were found unresponsive at 2:07 a.m. and both were later pronounced dead at the scene. Police initially described the deadly incident as a murder-suicide — but their family says it wasn’t so.
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Family members said that after Kuaron was shot, the video showed Paris reaching for the gun, and it may have accidentally gone off again. They said they believed the gun was Kuaron’s. Both children were shot in the head. The girl’s grandmother, Susan Dyson, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that she saw the Instagram Live video the two cousins were making together at a downtown St. Louis apartment that the family had rented to celebrate birthdays: “It wasn’t a situation where they were arguing or anything like that,” said Susan Dyson, the deceased girl’s grandmother. “They were playing with a 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, 35, also said, “It was no murder. It wasn’t a suicide. It was a freak accident. It happened.”
Family members said Paris, who was one of nine children, “was a funny seventh grader who loved getting her hair and nails done and had a beautiful voice. They described Kuaron as a goofy eighth grader who had long been able to do backflips,” ABC notes.
Police are still investigating Friday’s incident.
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