UNHAPPY BIRTHDAY ..... CHILDREN + GUNS = LIKELY TRAGEDY

Girl, 12, 'accidentally' shoots cousin, 14, dead then kills herself on Instagram Live while playing with gun at St Louis birthday party

 

Daily Mail 

March 27, 2022

A Missouri girl aged just 14 accidentally' shot her 12 year-old cousin dead and then killed herself while streaming on Instagram Live at a birthday party, her stricken family says. 

St Louis Police initially described Friday's incident, in which 12-year-old Paris Harvey, shot her 14-year-old cousin, Kuaron Harvey before shooting herself, as a murder-suicide.

 

           Twelve-year-old Paris Harvey (pictured), shot her 14-year-old cousin, Kuaron Harvey, before shooting herself in what police initially described as a murder-suicide but relatives said was a freak accident 

After Kuaron (pictured) was shot in the head, Paris reached for the gun and it may have accidentally gone off, also wounding her in the head, relatives have said

 

The tragedy took place at an appartment the family had rented for a party on South 10th and Spruce Street shortly after 2am on Friday. Kuaron and Paris were pronounced dead at the scene 

 

 

However, the children's family described the horrific shooting that took place at a house the family rented to celebrate birthdays, as a 'freak accident.' 

 

Police responded to the Cupples Station Loft Apartments at South 10th and Spruce Street shortly after 2am on Friday. 

 

Kuaron and Paris, whose mother and father are siblings, were pronounced dead at the scene. 

 

'It was no murder. It wasn't a suicide,' Paris' mother, 35-year-old Shinise Harvey, told the St Louis Post-dispatch. 'It was a freak accident. It happened.'