List of Facebook Live Incidents
List of Facebook Live Incidents
Ever since the "live" feature debuted on Facebook in March 2016, bizarre moments have occurred where live incidents are broadcast to the public. These incidents are often graphic and revealing of the user's raw experience in showing their personality to the public. Most of the incidents involve the very same user who records it live their profile.
Below is a list of some of the Facebook Live moments that went viral and/or covered in the news.
Deaths/Suicides
2016
Antonio Perkins (June 15, 2016; shot to death while filming a shooting in Chicago)
Erdogan Ceren (October 10, 2016; suicide)
Brian Fields (October 28, 2016; shot to death)
Brooke Hughes & Chaniya Morrison-Toomey (December 6, 2016; car/tractor trailer accident)
Anthony Stanford II(December 13, 2016; shot accidentally bySteve Leannais)
Keiana Herndon (December 28, 2016; collapsed while singing)
Katelyn Nichole Davis (December 30, 2016; suicide)
2017
Naika Venant (January 22, 2017; suicide)
Jay Bowdy (January 23, 2017; suicide)
Douglas de Jesus Vieira (January 29, 2017; suicide)
Breunna Ward (February 14, 2017; gunshot wound)
Lavontay White Jr. (February 14, 2017; gunshot wound)
Luis Manuel Medina & Luis Martinez (February 14, 2017; gunshot wounds)
Pahinggar Indrawan (March 17, 2017; suicide by hanging)
Arjun Bharadwaj (April 3, 2017; jumper who fell off the 19th floor of a hotel)
Robert Godwin, Sr. (April 16, 2017; 74-year-old man who was murdered in Cleveland, Ohio)
Markeice “Mari” Brown (April 22, 2017; committed suicide two days after his girlfriend committed suicide)
Wuttisan “Tei” Wongtalay (Phuket) (April 24, 2017; suicide by hanging, killing his daughter Beta)
Colleen Ferreri (April 24, 2017; suicide with a handgun in Baltimore, Maryland)
James M. Jeffrey (April 25, 2017; suicide with a rifle in Robertsdale, Alabama)
Jared McLemore (May 13, 2017; suicide by setting himself on fire in Memphis, Tennessee)
2018
2019
Brian Velasco (January 16, 2019; suicide by jumping off the 34th floor of a roof deck)
Crime-Related Events
Brittany Herring-Covington, Tanishia Covington, Jaenone Eblock, and Tesfaye Cooper torturing Austin Hilbourn (January 3, 2017)
Swedish Gang rape of woman on Facebook Live (January 22, 2017)
Sean Vasquez: shooting of Covina police officers (April 9, 2017)
Steve Stephens, a man who shot and murdered Robert Godwin, Sr. (April 16, 2017)
Lynnae Cook and Chrissy Jacobs (Serena McKay violently beaten to death on Facebook Live in Sagkeeng First Nation on April 23, 2017)
Other
Ehab Jaber: a man who flashed 6 of his firearms after attending an event (April 9, 2017)