Nakia Venant Suicide Video: Teenager’s Hanging On Facebook Live Could Be Part Of Troubling Trend
Nakia Venant allegedly filmed her own suicide on Facebook Live, the second suicide of a young person to be shown to the internet via streaming video in what experts say could be a troubling new trend.
The Miami teenager allegedly took her life on Sunday by hanging herself in the bathroom of her foster parents’ home, the New York Daily News reported.
While the full details on Nakia Venant’s suicide video were not reported, the Miami Herald noted that the Facebook Live video showed the 14-year-old allegedly fashioning a homemade scarf as a noose. The video reportedly lasted more than two hours.
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Authorities were almost able to save Venant, the New York Daily News reported. A friend reportedly saw the video and called police, but officers showed up to the wrong address. The residents at that address pointed police to the correct home, but by then it was too late and the 14-year-old was dead.
“We are absolutely horrified and devastated by the news of this young girl’s death,” Mike Carroll, of the Florida DFC told the Miami Herald. “We will do everything we can to support this family and all those who cared for her as they begin to heal from this tragedy.”
The live-streaming video of Nakia Venant’s suicide came just a few weeks after another young girl who used Facebook Live to document her suicide. In Georgia, 12-year-old Katelyn Nichole Davis took her life outside of her family’s home and broadcast the final act online.
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