The family of two teens who had died in an apparent murder-suicide Friday morning said that the double shooting was a “freak accident.”
Yet the St. Louis Police Department believes the 12-year-old girl had intentionally shot her 14-year-old cousin and then shot herself while streaming the horrific ordeal live on Instagram.
“Everybody was getting together to celebrate, and so the younger kids, they got a bed and breakfast,” the girl’s distraught mom told reporters.
“They were making a video, and [the girl] was playing with the gun, but it went off and hit him. She dropped the gun, and it fell, and it went off, to my knowledge.”
“And then when she picked it up, she picked it up by the barrel and it went off. That’s all I know…it was not a suicide. It was just a freak accident.”
The family’s narrative is being investigated. The two teens sustained fatal shots to the heads and were pronounced dead at the scene.
