Police officers found a girl shot dead in Bensalem after her alleged 16-year-old killer confessed to the crime over an Instagram video chat in which he also asked for help to dispose of the body, police say.
The accused murderer, a boy, sent a video chat Friday afternoon to a teenage acquaintance in which he said he’d accidentally killed somebody before flipping the video and showing the legs and feet of someone covered in blood, the Bensalem Township Police Department said.
Officers tracked the boy down to his home on the 1400 block of Gibson Road, at which point he ran out the back and into the woods, according to the complaint. The officers then entered the home and found the victim dead from a gunshot wound to the back.Sign up for NBC Philadelphia newsletters.
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