Naïve New Year revelry and silly Facebook craze cost a
22-year-old man his life in a bizarre incident in Phoenix, Arizona and his teenage
sister landed behind bars for killing her own brother on the New Year day.
It all happened when 19-year-old Savannah and her brother Manuel
Ortiz posed with a gun to his head for gangster-style photos, when she accidentally
shot him dead.
According to a report in the Sun, Ortiz died instantly from
a bullet to the head at about 6am on New Year's Day after partying all night. Ortiz
and sister Savannah Ramirez returned to the home they shared early on Monday
after spending the night drinking.
According to the report, they were with two other people
when one person pulled out a gun and they started playing with it for Facebook
photos. As Savannah posed with the weapon it went off, according to US media
reports. It is not known if the group was aware that the handgun was loaded.
Savannah has been questioned and released pending further
investigations, said the report. Sgt Steve Martos was quoted as saying she would
likely be charged with manslaughter if tests conclude she had alcohol in her
body. He said: "Every New Year's Eve, this particular sister is going to
be thinking about this for the rest of her life on how...drinking overnight,
playing with a gun and now shoots and kills her brother."
Authorities are looking into who owns the gun.
It was reported that on both Manuel and Savannah's Facebook
pages there are numerous photos of them making gang symbols and posing with
guns.
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