A 16-year-old Houston girl was killed and two others were injured in a shooting sparked by a “social media beef,” police said.
Mareja Pratt, a sophomore at Elsik High School, had been the target of bullying on Instagram by a woman for months before she was gunned down Monday afternoon, a relative told KTRK-TV.
“She kept picking on [Pratt] on Instagram, sending people pictures saying she was a prostitute,” her cousin Kira Walton said. “Messing with her to the point my cousin used to cry about it.”
Pratt, a 20-year-old woman and a 22-year-old man had gone to confront another group about the posts when gunfire erupted near Wilcrest Drive and Bellaire Boulevard, police said.
A man in a car from the other group fired up to 15 shots and then fled with two other females, KHOU-TV reported.
The teen was pronounced dead at the scene, while the two others in her group were taken to the hospital, police said.
