The tragic incident happened in the Shadbagh area. According to the police, a boy named Abdul Rehman was making a TikTok video when the gun fired unexpectedly, and he died on the spot.
As soon as the police were informed, they arrived at the scene, moved Abdul Rehman s body to the morgue for an autopsy, and began an investigation.
The police said that the deceased boy was from Mazang and had come to his uncle’s house in Wasanpura. According to media reports, Abdul Rehman s family has refused to pursue legal action.
Just a day earlier, a man who had recently brought his family back to Pakistan from the United States confessed to shooting dead his teenage daughter, motivated by his disapproval of her TikTok content.
The shooting happened on a street in the southwestern city of Quetta on Tuesday. The suspect, Anwar ul-Haq, initially said that unidentified gunmen shot and killed his American-born, 15-year-old daughter before he confessed to the crime, police official Babar Baloch said.
"Our investigation so far has found that the family had an objection to her dressing, lifestyle, and social gathering," another police investigator, Zohaib Mohsin, said. "We have her phone. It is locked," he told Reuters. "We are probing all aspects, including honour killing."
The family had recently returned to Balochistan province in predominantly Muslim Pakistan, a nation with conservative social norms, having lived in the United States for about 25 years, Baloch said.
The suspect has U.S. citizenship, the officer said. He said Haq had told him his daughter began creating "objectionable" content on the social media platform TikTok when she lived in the United States.
He told police that she continued to share videos on the platform after returning to Pakistan. Baloch said the main suspect s brother-in-law had also been arrested in connection with the killing.
Police said they had charged Haq with the murder. They did not offer proof of Haq s U.S. citizenship except for the suspect s own testimony and declined to say whether the U.S. embassy had been informed of the incident.
