Dylan Hemphill, 18, was fatally shot in a live Instagram video on Monday night, according to the Detroit Free Press. His friend accidentally pulled the trigger of a handgun while the two were recording a video in Dylan\u2019s living room.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt seems so surreal right now. I\u2019m shocked, very shocked<\/em>,\u201d Hemphill\u2019s mother Shantel told the local news outlet WXYZ-TV. \u201cThey\u2019re close friends. They\u2019re like brothers. I mean, I treated DeRon like he was a son of mine.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n Read more<\/p>\n The teenager, whose full name has not been released, remains in police custody awaiting charges.<\/p>\n On Sunday, another accidental shooting was captured on Facebook Live in in Houston, Texas. Devyn Holmes, 26, was shot in the head while sitting in a car with friends and playing with two handguns.<\/p>\n In a bitter twist of irony, the video shows Holmes telling a female friend \u201cYou\u2019re making me nervous<\/em>,\u201d just seconds before he was shot according to KTRK-TV, Houston<\/a>. He remains in the hospital but is brain dead and on life support, according to reports. A 25-year-old woman accused of pulling the trigger is held in police custody.<\/p>\n It is unknown how many people witnessed the violent scenes on Facebook and Instagram, which was acquired by Facebook in 2012.<\/p>\n This is not the first time fatal shootings were broadcast live on social media platforms. In February<\/a>, Douglas Cleveland Colson was charged with first-degree murder for gunning down a man in North Carolina, who captured his own murder on Facebook Live.<\/p>\n In April 2017, Steve Stephens murdered <\/a>an elderly man in a pre-recorded Facebook video in Cleveland, Ohio. The unprovoked shooting launched a nationwide manhunt culminating in a dramatic chase in which Stephens shot himself and died.\u00a0<\/p>\n Like this story? Share it with a friend!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Via RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Detroit teenager is dead and a Houston man is gravely injured after they were shot in disturbing incidents of gun violence while filming live video on Instagram and Facebook. Dylan Hemphill, 18, was fatally shot in a live Instagram video on Monday night, according to the Detroit Free Press. His friend accidentally pulled the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":350054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-355224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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