WARNING: Distovering content Jodon Romero, 33, committed suicide on live television after a police pursuit in the US state of Arizona – his partner and children watched at home
A mother and her children were subjected to the traumatic experience to witness her partner and their father take his own life on live television.
Jodon Romero, 33, was embroiled in a long -term police in September 2013, in Arizona in the US, who broadcasts Fox News Live as it happened. While the law enforcement was closed, Romero Koos tragic to end his life.
In 2022 another father from Bolton in Greater Manchester, Paul David Hilton, also ended his life by suicide and streamed it on Facebook.
Angela Rodriguez, the partner and mother of Jodon Romero for their children, nine, 13 and 15 years old, looked at home with the young people when the painful scene was broadcast.
Subsequently, she brought a lawsuit that claimed that the children endure seriously emotionally and psychological trauma to witness the shocking death of their father.
The BBC reported the mother of three alleged accumulation of emotional need, reports the explicit.
Fox News had followed the chase with a live helicopter food and unintentionally showed the suicide in the air. After returning a commercial break, the news anchor gave an apology and said: “We really messed it up and we are very sorry.”
A Fox News director later expressed regret of the incident and attributed to “serious human mistakes” after broadcasting the somewhat delayed live images of suicide.
The network has since apologized for the “serious human error” that resulted in broadcasting the fatal incident.
On September 28, 2013, Romero died of a self -laid shot wound at the head after a chase of an hour -long car, which started with him carjacking of a vehicle under shot, while a news helicopter won the event from above. The police stated that he had an extensive criminal record and was sought for conditional violations.
Rodriquez’s lawsuit against Fox News Channel and her parent company News Corp claims on the day in question, the children of Romero have heard schoolyard about a suicide on a live television. They returned home and searched the images on YouTube, just to discover that it was their father they watched.
Rodriguez says that her children have been “through the video” and are still seriously traumatized “and have still shown signs of post -traumatic stress disorder, such as flashbacks and disturbed sleep.
The Phoenix police reported that the man who apparently shot himself on live TV was chased by officers after a carjacking from a 2008 Dodge caliber.
Officers said that the car had stolen the car around 11 a.m. local time in shot in West Phoenix and had remained behind the streets of the city and a highway of the state.
The man shot at officers and a police helicopter during the chase, but no other injuries were reported, according to police spokesperson Sergeant Tommy Thompson.
He confirmed that the man died of a self -laid shot wound after dumping the car on an unpaved road.
American Fox News said: “We have taken all the precautions to prevent such a live incident by placing the helicopter photos on a five -second delay.
“Unfortunately, this mistake was the result of a serious human error and our apologies for what viewers eventually saw on the screen.”
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