Shock as a 13 year-boy accidentally shot and kills himself while on Instragram Live

dennis kibet 13:40 - 17 April 2017

Malachi-Hemphill of Forest Park, Georgia, accidentally shot and killed himself while on Instagram Live after the gun he was posing with went off.

A 13-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed himself on April 12 as friends watched live on Instagram.

According to his mother Shaniqua Stephens someone had asked why he didn’t have a clip in the gun and told him to put one in.

Hemphill was rushed to the hospital where he died. Stephens said it was an accident and not an intentional suicide.

Several of his friends were watching when the shooting happened. Stephens said they rushed to her house afterward.

“There was about 40 to 50 kids outside,” she said. “I guess these were the kids that were watching on live that live in the area. I guess when it happened they just ran over here.”

'We kicked in the door. We found him just laying there in a pool of blood,' Stephens said

Stephens said she knew something was wrong when she heard the noise, and immediately rushed upstairs with her daughter.

Stephens isn’t completely sure how Malachi got the gun. She was told he got it from a friend who got it from someone else. Detectives told her they are working to find out who originally had the gun and passed it to the friend

RIP Malachi

This is not the firtsvcase to happen in Georgia, as on 24th January this year an aspiring actor from Texas who had just premiered his first movie shot himself on Facebook’s livestream.

Shaniqua Stephens narrates