As the Houston Police Department confirmed, 19-year-old Deleon Alonso Smith had found the gun with his cousin earlier in the day. They were posing with it for Instagram when it went off, prompting his uncle to run to the apartment and try to resuscitate him, but Smith died at the scene. He was about to start community college, and leaves behind two young daughters. His family describe him as a fun-loving person and there's no suspicion of suicide. The police are investigating. It's all very sad.On VICE Sports: The Cult – Paul Scholes & Patrick Vieira
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If selfie death teaches us anything, it's that we as a species are doomed – that we've devolved into some combination of parakeets distracted in a mirror and lemmings waltzing blithely off a cliff, dying not through misadventure, but by not paying attention. It's Chekhov's rifle breaking through the fourth wall and into real life. It's that movie Blow-Up but with the male lead's finger on both the shutter and the gun. It's the future of dying and it's here to claim us all.@joelgolbyMore stuff from VICE:We Talked to the Guy Behind the Horrifying, Wonderful, Viral 'Duck Army' VineHow Oliver Sacks Helped Me Deal with My Hallucination-Inducing HeadachesWe Watched Greenpeace Park a Gigantic Polar Bear Outside Shell's London HQ This MorningTrending on NOISEY: Are The Teens Of Reading Festival Weird And Different, Or Just Like Us?