( )ST. LOUIS - Police in St. Louis are investigating the shooting deaths of two young cousins in what initially was believed to have been a murder-suicide.The incident was livestreamed in an apartment and family members called it a tragic accident.Officers told FOX Television Stations they believe 12-year-old Paris Harvey shot and killed her cousin, 14-year-old Kuaron Harvey, before fatally shooting herself.The girls’ grandmother, Susan Dyson, told the St.
Louis Post-Dispatch that she saw the Instagram Live video the two cousins were making together at a downtown St. Louis apartment the family had rented to celebrate March birthdays.RELATED: Suspect in deadly shootings of homeless arrested in Washington, DC, police say"It wasn’t a situation where they were arguing or anything like that," said Dyson, who is from the Dallas area. "They were playing with the gun, when they shouldn’t have been.
Of course, they shouldn’t have been doing it. I think it just went off. It went off by mistake."Family members said the cousins had been raised close together.
Kuaron’s mother and Paris’ father are siblings.Paris and Kuaron were alone in a bathroom making a video in the mirror before the shooting happened.