According to investigators, two young cousins shot one another before killing themselves. The family referred to it as a “unusual accident” at a birthday celebration held at the St. Louis condominium on Friday.
According to family members, Paris Harvey, 12, and Cuaron Harvey, 14, were shot and killed at around two in the morning on Friday while the cousins were livestreaming on Instagram from the toilet of their apartment. The cousins went to a family celebration in March to honor a little relative’s birthday.
Although they first classified the shooting as a homicide-suicide, police are currently looking into it. The St. Louis Police Department posted on social media, “Our sincere condolences to the families of Paris Harvey, 12, and Cuaron Harvey, 14, who tragically passed away on March 25, 22.” Paris 35 The 19-year-old Shanise Harvey claimed she had no idea where the gun came from or how her kid discovered it.
In an interview with NBC station KSDK, Harvey stated, “They made a video where she was playing with a gun, but she ran away and hit him. According to what I understand, she then picks it up, takes up the bucket, and it begins again. Not by suicide. Just a strange accident, that’s all.
Susan Dyson, the grandmother of the cousins, told the St. Louis Telegraph that she had seen Instagram video of the shooting.
“They played with weapons when they shouldn’t have,” Dyson told The Telegraph. “It wasn’t a case of them squabbling or anything like that. The answer is, “Of course they shouldn’t have.I believe it recently took off. Unintentionally, it turned off.
Paris, one of nine children, was a charming seventh-grader who loved to do her own hair and nails and had a lovely voice, according to family members. They characterize Kuaron as a silly eighth-grader who has been able to perform backflips for a long time.