According to police, in a live Instagram broadcast, a 12-year-old girl shot and killed her 14-year-old cousin before shooting herself. The child’s mother described the incident as a “freak accident” that happened at a family gathering.
TV station KSDK reported that the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department first characterized the deaths of 14-year-old Kuaron Harvey and 12-year-old Paris Harvey as a murder-suicide.
Family members who saw the footage, however, said it demonstrated differently.
“There was no murder. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Paris’ mother, Shinise Harvey, 35, who did not see the video but heard others describe it, said, “It wasn’t a suicide.” “It was an unusual mishap.”
According to TV station KMOV, the two toddlers were discovered dead when officers arrived shortly before two in the morning on Friday.