A 13-year-old boy, Malachi Hemphill, has killed himself with a gun right on Instagram live as his friends watched.
Hemphill shot himself while doing a live video on the social media (Instagram live), on Monday, April 10. He was rushed to Grady Hospital where he died.
Malachi’s mother, Shaniqua Stephens told WXIA-TV that the owner of the gun is unknown yet.
The mother of the teenager said: “I heard a big boom. I couldn’t tell if it was a gun shot or what. I just knew that it was something that was wrong. We kicked in the door. We found him just laying there in a pool of blood.
My daughter screamed and said, ‘Mom turn his phone off!’ As I proceeded to look at his phone he was on Instagram Live, about 40 to 50 kids who had been watching live on Instagram came to the house immediately the he shot himself."
She however warned parents to always keep tab on their children’s social media activities.
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