Kuaron Harvey, 14, and Paris Harvey, 12, were live on Instagram around 2 a.m. Friday when a gun the youngest child was playing with exploded and killed her cousin – causing her to shoot herself, CBS reported. News. Police initially described the fatality as a suicide – but their family says it was not. “It was not a murder. “It was not suicide,” Paris-based mother Siniz Harvey told the Associated Press. Louis Post-Dispatch. “It was a horrible accident. It happened. “ He said relatives who saw the video said the couple was “trying to be very hip” when the shooting happened. Police told the agency that the cousins were found indifferent at 2:07 p.m. and it was later found that both were dead at the scene. “It was not a situation where they were arguing or anything like that,” said Susan Dyson, the dead girl’s grandmother. “They were playing with a gun when they shouldn’t have. Of course, they should not have done that. “I think he just left,” Dyson said. “He left by mistake.” He said the two were at a birthday party for younger family members when they went to the bathroom to film in front of a mirror. Then the tragedy happened. The family said the two were so close that they were like “brother and sister” and usually made horses when they were together, joking, rapping or making videos. “No matter how well we raise our children, they will dare to dare,” Shinise Harvey told Dispatch. St. Louis police did not release the results of the department’s investigation.
