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. But the children’s family have since described the horrific shooting that took place at a house the family rented to celebrate birthdays, as a ‘freak accident.’  

‘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.’

Harvey said she had not seen the video but family members had described it to her. She said the cousins were ‘trying to be too hip,’ when live streaming from the downtown apartment’s bathroom before the tragedy.   

Source – NewsWeek