Facebook Live murder: North Carolina man arrested

Prentis Robinson
Prentis Robinson died while live-streaming himself on Facebook

 Police in North Carolina say a man was lethally shot as he was communicating himself on Facebook Live.

Prentis Robinson, 55, had quite recently left a police headquarters where he had announced one of his telephones as stolen, and was taping himself with a selfie stick.

A man is then found in the short video trading words with the casualty. "You're on live," Mr Robinson lets him know before four discharges are terminated.

A man, named by police as Douglas Colson, has been captured.

The shooter, who police say was equipped with a since quite a while ago barrelled firearm, is seen rapidly strolling over the camera as he escapes the scene.

The Wingate Police Division said Mr Colson was addressed on Monday yet was not captured at the time.

On Tuesday morning he handed himself over to police after they issued a warrant for his capture.

The shooting, which happened at around 10:00 neighborhood time (15:00GMT) on Monday, set off a lockdown of close-by Wingate College, around 30 miles (48km) south-east of Charlotte, North Carolina.

Police say Mr Robinson would regularly go on Facebook Live to uncover issues in the area.

He was found in a video on Monday morning griping that a relative had stolen one of his cell phones.

Wingate Police Boss Donnie Gay was speechless after the shooting. He told WSOC-television that he had just barely come in to the station to report a wrongdoing.

"I'd quite recently addressed him, it was, I just...it's difficult to say anything in regards to that. I just traversed conversing with him," Mr Gay said.

On Mr Robinson's Facebook page, he recognizes himself as a performer from Atlanta.

As per the Charlotte Eyewitness, he spent quite a bit of his grown-up life in Wingate, and had moved on from the nearby secondary school.

Douglas Colson
Douglas Colson has been arrested for murder

 A Facebook representative disclosed to CBS News that the organization expelled the first video.

"Since we can't have realized that the casualty would have needed this horrendous demonstration to be live spilled via web-based networking media, we have evacuated the first video," the representative said.

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