A Pennsylvania teenager was arrested on Friday after police he say he confessed to homicide in an Instagram video chat. Authorities mentioned they later discovered the physique of a woman within the teenager's trailer.
On Friday, a lady referred to as 911 saying that a teenage boy, later recognized as 16-year-old Joshua Cooper, had despatched her daughter an Instagram video chat saying he had simply killed somebody, Bensalem Police mentioned. In that very same video, police mentioned that Cooper "confirmed the legs and ft of somebody lined in blood" earlier than asking for assist in eliminating the physique.
Police went to Cooper's house to analyze the scenario. After they arrived, Cooper fled, and police mentioned officers discovered a "deceased juvenile feminine on the ground of the lavatory." She had evidently been shot, police mentioned, and there have been "indications that substantial steps had been taken to scrub up the crime scene."
Cooper was discovered quickly thereafter and brought into custody. In accordance with The Philadelphia Inquirer, which acquired an affidavit of possible trigger for Cooper's arrest, there was a gun protected and holster with out a gun within the trailer. When police detained Cooper, he allegedly advised them that "it was an accident," The Inquirer reported.
The affidavit obtained by The Inquirer allegedly states that the sufferer had been at Cooper's house earlier within the day to observe an unnamed Netflix collection. Cooper had allegedly been reorganizing the gun protected earlier than the sufferer's arrival. Sooner or later whereas they had been hanging out, the lady had gone, unaccompanied, to the lavatory, Cooper allegedly advised police.
CBS Information has reached out to police for additional info.
Cooper has been charged as an grownup for felony murder, possessing devices of crime and tampering with or fabricating bodily proof. He was denied bail and despatched to the county's Edison Juvenile Detention Middle. Police are actually in search of extra details about the incident.