dad kills himself live on paltalk website

Mr Whitrick, using the user-name Shyboy-17-1, switched on his webcam and went ahead with his grisly plan. They confirmed Mr Whitrick told friends in the internet chat room of his plans to kill himself but, thinking he was joking, they egged him on telling him to make sure the his webcam was on.

Today distraught users of the site said that they felt sick and had previously thought the web broadcast was a hoax. He was logged on with around 50 other users to a special 'insult' chatroom where people 'have a go at each other'. Mr Whitrick told users of web-chat site PalTalk what he was going to do two hours before he killed himself on Wednesday night. Last night it emerged that Mr Whitrick had been suffering from depression after being badly injured in a car crash last year.įriends said that the breakdown of his marriage with wife, Paula - with whom he had 12-year-old twins - and the recent death of his father had also been causing him some distress. Officers rushed to the electrician's home in the Wellington area of Shropshire within minutes, smashing down the door to try to save him.īut despite their efforts to save him, he was pronounced dead at the scene. Stunned by what they had witnessed - broadcast on a popular chatroom website used by millions of people across the globe - chatroom users immediately contacted the police.

Dad kills himself live on paltalk website