Yazmin Esmeralda, a fifteen-year-old girl shot herself during a TikTok video making.
TikTok has been a famous platform to express people’s talent, feelings, emotions, or anything they feel. The platform has been used especially for videos and people of all age groups are using it.
Not every time social media put a good impact on people’s lives, sometimes it takes even their lives. Yazmin Esmeralda’s attempt at making a video went wrong, she got shot.
Who Is Yazmín Esmeralda TikTok?
Yazmin Esmeralda is a TikTok user. She was a Mexican teen. She wanted to video herself with the submachine gun that she found in her grandparents’ house.
Despite the nature of the accident, the Sinaloa Attorney General Sara Bruna Quinonez Estrada said they would like to determine if the Mexican teen’s father could be held accountable.
The gun is said to be meant for the Army’s exclusive use. The official thinks when such a weapon is at home, and children are present at the home, one must be careful to store it.
As per them, they do not have any information on the father of the victim. Esmeralda’s brother witnessed the tragic incident because he was the one who was recording her on TikTok.
The boy told the officials that his sister was carrying the gun when it suddenly fell, and it went off. Some local report had mentioned she was shot on her head.
Yazmin Esmeralda, 15-year-old Shot To Death
Yazmin Esmeralda found the gun in her grandparent’s house and tried to use it to make a TikTok video. Her mother and grandparents heard the shot and ran to her bedroom.
They found her body on the floor laid in the blood. They immediately called the emergency line. But by the time police and paramedics arrived on the scene, the teen was already dead.
The paramedics confirmed that she died instantly. It was the carelessness of the teen and also the owner of the gun to keep it insecure that anyone could pick it up and use it.
Meet Yazmin Esmeralda Parents & Family
Yazmin Esmeralda was visiting her grandparents’ home in Ruiz Cortines Numero community when she was a submachine gun Uzi and started recording herself on TikTok.
She was living with her mother in Los Mochis City, took the gun without knowing it was loaded. Numerous accidents happened due to Tiktok’s challenges.
Parents must be very careful about children’s usage of the internet. Especially, to keep such weapon insecurity is itself dangerous. Police are investigating the case.