List of livestreamed suicides
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This is an incomplete list of livestreamed suicides. Livestreamed suicide is an internet phenomenon where an individual broadcasts their suicide in real time via social media or video platforms.[1]
List
1974
- July 15 — Christine Chubbuck, a reporter, fatally shot herself in the head with a revolver during a live broadcast in Sarasota, Florida, United States.[2]
1987
- January 22 — The suicide of R. Budd Dwyer was committed during a press conference in his office in the Pennsylvania Finance Building.[3]
1998
- April 30 — Daniel Jones' suicide was broadcast live on television from news helicopters.[4]
2008
- November 19 — 19-year-old Abraham Biggs took a lethal dose of drugs during a livestream on Justin.tv in Pembroke Pines, Florida, United States. Prior to the suicide, Biggs had announced his plans to end his life on a bodybuilding website.[5][6]
2010
2012
- September 28 — Fox News accidentally aired JoDon Romero's suicide live on air: the carjacker shot himself during a police chase.[10]
2013
- November 24 — A 14-year-old Japanese junior high school student, under the pseudonym Rorochan_1999 (Japanese: ろろちゃん), jumped from the 13th floor in Ōmihachiman, Shiga Prefecture, Japan, whilst live on FC2.[11][12] She had previously stated her intent, on 2chan, that she "want[ed] to do a suicide stream."[13]
2016
- May 10 — A 19-year-old who called herself Océane, threw herself under a train in Égly, France, during a Periscope livestream.[14]
- October 26 — 22-year-old Roengkhetkan Saharat fatally shot himself in the head on a Facebook livestream in Kamphaeng Phet, Thailand. Before the livestream, he faced a large amount of debt due to his gambling.[15][16]
- December 30 — 12-year-old Katelyn Nicole Davis died by suicide during a livestream on Live.me in United States. In a 40-minute live broadcast, the girl said that she had been sexually abused by a family member.[17]
2017
- July 1 — A 16-year-old Japanese high school student, who went under the pseudonym Nakaikiaka (Japanese: なかいきあか), jumped onto the train tracks on a TwitCasting livestream at Kintetsu-Kōriyama Station, Yamatokōriyama, Nara Prefecture, Japan. She had previously expressed her sadness at her boyfriend forcing her to take birth control pills after her becoming pregnant.[18]
2019
- October 17 — An 18-year-old student, Gleb Korablev, fatally shot himself in the head with a Saiga-12K on a VKontakte livestream in Moscow, Russia. The footage of his suicide was then uploaded to YouTube under "1444" 2 days later. The video was up for 3 days before being taken down.[19][unreliable source?]
2020
- August 31 — A 33-year-old man, Ronald Merle McNutt, fatally shot himself during a Facebook livestream in New Albany, Mississippi, United States.[20]
2023
- October 2 — In the afternoon, two teenagers, 17-year-old Victoria and 18-year-old Vladimir, jumped from the 24th floor in Kyiv, Ukraine. The teenagers broadcast their suicide on TikTok. Before committing suicide, they posted several dozen videos on their Telegram channel.[21]