Watch PARIS HARVEY and KUARON HARVEY Full Video Viral
According to authorities and a relative, two teenage Missouri cousins were live streaming when one shot and killed the other before committing himself.
Paris Harvey, 12, and her cousin Kuaron Harvey, 14, both of St. Louis, were the minors, according to St. Louis police.
At 2:00 a.m. on Friday, police officers responded to a report of a shooting in the 1000 block of Spruce Street.
The “victim and suspect were located inside a residence suffering from puncture wounds,” according to the police. At the scene, both were declared dead.
Family members claim it was a terrible accident, despite the fact that police classed the occurrence as a murder-suicide.
NBC affiliate KSDK of St. Louis reported that Paris’ mother, Shinise Harvey, said she let her daughter to go to the apartment for a family gathering honoring March birthdays. According to Harvey, Kuaron is her brother’s son, the broadcaster reported.
When Paris was playing with the gun as the children were recording a video on Instagram Live, “but it went off and hit” Kuaron, she claimed.
Paris “dropped the gun, and to my knowledge, it fell and went off. She lifted it up by the barrel and as soon as she did, it went off. That’s all I’m aware of. There was no suicide. She told KSDK, “It was just a freak accident.
Harvey admitted she had no idea how her daughter got a hold of it.