DC police: Teenage girl accidentally fatally shoots herself while filming video for social media

WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — D.C. police said a teenage girl accidentally shot herself and died while filming a video for social media in Northwest Wednesday evening.

Officers with the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) received reports of a shooting shortly after 5 p.m. in the 1700 block of Benning Road NE.

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There, police said the 14-year-old girl was found unconscious and not breathing, suffering from a gunshot wound. She later died from her injuries.

MPD said the girl was inside an apartment handling a gun while filming a video for social media when the gun went off, striking her in the torso…

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