Wow: 13 Year Old Accidentally Kills Himself While Playing With Gun On Instagram Live
This is starting to really get out of control.
Social media has been costing people their lives more and more often. This time, tragedy struck a 13 year old boy from Atlanta.
Malachi Hemphill was recording live on Instagram while playing with a loaded gun and accidentally shot and killed himself. His mother found his body...
“I heard a big boom. I couldn’t tell if it was a gun shot or what.”Shaniqua Stephens had just watched her 13-year-old son take out the trash Monday evening when she heard a noise.“I just knew that it was something that was wrong,” she said.She and her daughter ran upstairs and found him. “We kicked in the door. We found him just laying there in a pool of blood,” Stephens recounted. “My daughter screamed and said, ‘Mom turn his phone off!’ As I proceeded to look at his phone he was on Instagram Live.”Stephens says about “40-50 kids” who had been watching the live stream showed up on her front yard to get the sad news.To make matters worse, Shaniqua says that she was told that someone watching the stream instructed Malachi to put a clip into the gun. As he was loading the weapon, it went off, killing him instantly. -(11 Alive & Bossip)