An Instagram Live Broadcast Gone Horribly Wrong: Teen, 17, Killed During Passing Around Of Handguns

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Anthony Alexander, a 17-year-old Darby, Pennsylvania teen, is dead due to the most tragic of circumstances.

An Instagram Live Broadcast Gone Horribly Wrong: Teen, 17, Killed During Passing Around Of Handguns

On Sunday Jan. 30, he and several other teens were filming themselves on Instagram Live, passing around a pair of handguns. One of the teens, 16-year-old Diamar Hickman, touched the trigger of a Glock and caused it to go off, killing Alexander with a single shot to the face.

Diamire Hickman (Courtesy Upper Darby Police Department)

Hickman turned himself in the following day and was charged with third-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter. He remained in custody in lieu of $75,000 bail. Among the questions this craziness begs: where did the handguns come from? And how do a group of young kids get it in their heads that handling dangerous, loaded weapons will gain them social media cred?

There’s an additional, bittersweet twist to the story. This time last year, Alexander helped save three young children who fell into an icy pond. On March 25, Alexander was set to receive the Young Hero Award from the Congressional Medal of Honor Society, awarded to people under 17 for exhibiting “courage in a dire situation.” (He was 16 at the time.)

“We have to do something about the gun violence,” Ava Alexander, the deceased teen’s stepmother, told The Philadelphia Inquirer. “We cannot afford to keep losing our teenagers.”


An Instagram Live Broadcast Gone Horribly Wrong: Teen, 17, Killed During Passing Around Of Handguns (msn.com)

 

[JustChillin]

There is a plethora of issues here.

RIP

Hug your babies and be aware of what they are doing and who their “friends” are

 

[Deezz]

 

[phanatic]

One of the teens, 16-year-old Diamar Hickman, touched the trigger of a Glock and caused it to go off, killing Alexander with a single shot to the face.

No, he pulled the trigger. Touching a trigger doesn't make a gun fire.
"All full-sized and compact Glocks have a trigger pull measuring approximately twenty-four newtons, or 5.39 pounds, versus twenty-eight newtons of force, or 6.29 pounds of force for smaller, concealed carry Glock handguns."
That's not a lot of pressure. A dope that wants to play with a gun instead of treating it like a weapon will set it off. That sucks and why it's important to learn about guns.

 

[lightbright]

No, he pulled the trigger. Touching a trigger doesn't make a gun fire.
"All full-sized and compact Glocks have a trigger pull measuring approximately twenty-four newtons, or 5.39 pounds, versus twenty-eight newtons of force, or 6.29 pounds of force for smaller, concealed carry Glock handguns."
That's not a lot of pressure. A dope that wants to play with a gun instead of treating it like a weapon will set it off. That sucks and why it's important to learn about guns.

I've learned one thing about them....... hood boogers and idiots play with them

 

[4 Dimensional]

A preventable tragedy.

 

[TEN]

On Sunday Jan. 30, he and several other teens were filming themselves on Instagram Live, passing around a pair of handguns.

Story doesn't eeen need to go past this point for me to already know.

We can say tragic as often as we like but the retardation of this generation is hard to ignore.

 

[M.H.C.]

Had a childhood friend die the same way in fucking Middle School man. Senseless shit. Gotta pay more attention to the children if we can.

 

[slewdem100]

Tragic situation all around

 

[cli-terminator]

No, he pulled the trigger. Touching a trigger doesn't make a gun fire.
"All full-sized and compact Glocks have a trigger pull measuring approximately twenty-four newtons, or 5.39 pounds, versus twenty-eight newtons of force, or 6.29 pounds of force for smaller, concealed carry Glock handguns."
That's not a lot of pressure. A dope that wants to play with a gun instead of treating it like a weapon will set it off. That sucks and why it's important to learn about guns.

Agreed plus a Glock has a trigger safety that has to be depressed before the trigger can go back enough to make the striker to engage.

 

[34real]

I'm glad I got over that phase in my life where slingshots,bb guns and then pistols just lost there cool factor after witnessing what a bullet can do to a person physically and mentally.....the mention of a gun will have a motherfucker being the shooter than the victim.

I've seen the worse and like my father would tell us "Don't ever touch a gun unless your going to use it" and I've been living by that rule.