9 Horrendous Crimes That Were Actually Live Streamed on Facebook

Serena McKay was beaten to death by her classmates.

In 2017, a video streamed on Facebook Live showed 19-year-old Serena being brutally beaten to death by two other teenagers. The video remained on the social networking site for four hours before it was taken down. In the video, Serena was seen sobbing and saying, "I'm so sorry."

According to the teens' principal, he believes the murder was drug related. As for the two murder suspects, they're currently facing murder charges. Due to Canadian juvenile law, their identities are protected.

Steve Stephens live streamed a murder to get back at his girlfriend.

After a fight with his girlfriend, Joy Lane, Steve (above) decided to go on a killing rampage, cryptically telling his mother before he left her house that she was never going to see him again. A few hours later, he randomly approached 74-year-old grandfather Robert Godwin. While streaming the encounter live, Steve asked the man to say his girlfriend's name. "She's the reason why this is about to happen to you," he said in the video before fatally shooting the victim. In a subsequent live video, Steven explained how he was going on a "massacre" and claimed to have killed 13 others. After a three-day manhunt, Steven shot himself before police could get to him.

"I feel bad," Joy later told WJW. "The last thing that [Robert] would have said was my name and [he] didn't know me or why he was saying it. And that's been difficult."

Wuttisan Wongtalay killed his infant daughter and himself on Facebook.

Shortly after Steve made "Facebook killing" a shocking new trend, a new video surfaced on the social media site. This time, it was of a Thai man killing his 11-month-old daughter and himself in an apparent murder/suicide.

As for the mother, she horrifyingly witnessed the whole thing live while browsing Facebook. "I was with my older brother and he was logging onto his Facebook," she told Agence France-Presse. "He was scrolling down and suddenly we saw the live broadcast. I turned to take a look and saw him [Wuttisan] drop my daughter with the rope and I couldn’t continue to watch."

According to Thai police, the man's motives were to get back at his girlfriend for leaving him.

Abu Marwan stabbed his wife and then live streamed the aftermath.

In the shocking footage, the 41-year-old streamed a video of himself covered in blood after claiming he stabbed his wife to death for cheating on him. He then encouraged people who were watching to share the video as a warning to other women. "I went to my wife. I tried to fix things, and she kicked me out," he said in the video. "So I stabbed her. I stabbed her with the knife three or four times. If she died or did not die, I don't know. For all you women out there, that's what you get for cheating on your husbands."

After the incident, he was arrested. He currently remains under arrest and facing charges.

Prentis Robinson was shot while shooting a Facebook Live video.

After leaving a police station to report a missing phone, Prentis took out his selfie stick to broadcast a video of himself as he walked home. However, a few minutes later he was approached by a man who drew a gun. The victim warned "You're on Live," but they ended up being his last words. The gunman opened fire and Prentis was shot four times.

Shortly after the video started to go viral, police began a manhunt for suspect Douglas Colson, who eventually turned himself in. As police went through Prentis' Facebook in search of a motive, they uncovered videos that revealed that he and Douglas were rivals in a love quarrel that involved Douglas' wife.

Andrej Cekuta was beaten to death as thousands watched and "liked."

In Slovenia, two men got into a drunken brawl with Andrej, a 26-year-old man, as they filmed themselves punching and kicking the victim to an audience of 250,000 viewers. The video even got 400 "likes." Although Andrej was alive throughout the 20-minute video, he later died at a hospital. The two men, Ales Olovec and Martin Kovac, were later arrested and charged with murder.

Antonio Perkins accidentally live streamed his own murder.

Back in 2016, the 28-year-old Chicagoan was live streaming himself when someone open fired on him. Several of his friends and family watched in horror as the video showed him dropping his phone onto the blood-covered grass as a woman's voice screamed, "Baby, wake up! Tony, stay breathing!" He was pronounced dead later at the hospital.

Although Chicago police suspected the shooting was gang-related, Antonio's family denied that he was in a gang. “A lot of people loved my son," his father Daniel Cole said. "He was a good person." To this day, no suspects have been arrested.

A woman's Facebook Live video captured the murder of a toddler and his uncle.

A two-year-old boy and his 26-year-old uncle were both gunned down back in 2017 while the man's girlfriend streamed the whole thing live. The woman, who remains unnamed, was shooting a video of herself singing along to music when suddenly someone opened fire. The woman took off to safety while still broadcasting. "Call 911! They killed him … I have a bullet in my stomach," the woman said in the video. "Please, please, I can't breathe … Oh my God, please don't, Lord, I can't go. I can't go." The woman fortunately survived, and so far three suspects have been apprehended with ties to the murder.

Philando Castile's girlfriend live streamed his last moments after being shot by police.

His 2016 death ignited much controversy after he was gunned down by police during a routine traffic stop while his children sat in the backseat. Officer Jeronimo Yanez opened fire when Philando mentioned that he had a gun on him. After being shot in the arm, his shocked girlfriend started live streaming the whole thing. Although Facebook took the video down several hours later, it amounted 2.1 million views and instantly went viral. Although Officer Jeronimo was charged with three felonies, he was later acquitted of all charges.