Facebook Argument Leads to Death of 14-Year-Old Alabama Girl
Marcel Woo | | Mar 02, 2015 09:57 AM EST |
An argument that began on social media site Facebook turned deadly for a 14-year-old girl in Alabama, who was killed in a brawl at a local Birmingham park.
The police said the fatal shooting started with a squabble among girls on Facebook that ended with the girls deciding to meet at a local park to fight.
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Investigators said Kierra'onna Rice was one of the several girls that argued on Facebook and decided to take their fight on to the next level to a Birmingham park, where their fight was going to be recorded and then posted online.
It was an all-girls fight but at the height of the melee, two males, aged 17 and 19, pulled out guns and started shooing the girls, fatally hitting Rice and wounding two others.
Police arrested two suspects based on witnesses' accounts. Their names have not been released by the Birmingham police.
One witness said people were gathered around the fighting girls but when guns were fired, everyone scrambled for safety.
"We thought it was just one of those girly fights we see on YouTube but it became scary when guns were fired," said one witness.
The police believed one of the suspects was dating one of the girls involved in the fight. The guy apparently did not take it lightly when he saw his girl losing the fight, sources said.
The two other victims that were rushed to the hospital are now in stable condition, authorities said.
What sparked the squabble among the girls on Facebook has not been disclosed yet but police said they are investigating.
Birmingham Police Chief A.C. Roper said that some in the group planned to record the fight so video could be posted online.
In Maine, a 21-year-old man has been charged with killing a teenage girl he met through Facebook in 2013.
The suspect set up a fake Facebook profile and then arranged a meeting with the victim.
Police said the man ended up killing the victim in the process of a kidnapping investigators say he intended to solve himself.
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