Distraught Father Live Streams Suicide On Facebook Live After Daughter's Engagement

A disturbed father live streamed his own death on Facebook Live after his daughter got engaged without his permission. The man was identified as Ayhan Uzun, 54, of Kayseri in central Turkey.

Uzun's horrific video shocked viewers and the pleaded for him to stop as he took out his gun to kill himself. The Facebook Live video showed Uzun speaking directly into the camera before he pulled a handgun with his left hand and fired a single shot into his temple. Uzun immediately collapsed to the floor in the footage.

“Goodbye, I am leaving, take good care of yourselves,” Uzun said just before killing himself, according to a translation of the gruesome clip provided by Mirror Online.

Earlier in the video, Uzun said he decided to kill himself because his daughter didn’t seek his permission prior to getting engaged.

“I am live streaming tonight, and it is my will, I do not want the ones who put me in this position to attend my funeral,” Uzun said.

Uzun said he learned about his daughter’s engagement during a telephone call with his wife.

“Nobody asked me,” Uzun said. “Nobody treated me like a man. My father-in-law took my place and without having a right, he approved my daughter’s wedding… Nobody said this girl’s father is alive. Though I would have waited for my daughter and family to say to me: ‘Come, Father, be with us.’”

Uzun also said that some of the viewers “will call this a show,” but he insisted he didn’t want anyone else to experience the pain he was enduring at the time.

“A little later I will put an end to my life with the gun I am holding in my hands,” he said.

During his live-streamed speech, friends and relatives sent comments begging him not to take his own life but he ignored everyone's requests and killed himself. A representative at Facebook said in a statement to the New York Post that the company was “deeply saddened” by the video. The video has been removed from the website.

“We are deeply saddened by this tragedy,” according to the statement. “We don’t allow the promotion of self-injury or suicide on Facebook. We want people to have a safe experience on Facebook and we work with organizations around the world to provide assistance for people in distress.”

Police have launched an investigation into Uzun's death and his body has been taken for an autopsy, reports said.

Mark Zuckerberg added Facebook Live to the social media giant in April to give users an alternative way to communicate with one another in real-time. “Live is like having a TV camera in your pocket. Anyone with a phone now has the power to broadcast to anyone in the world,” Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post at the time.

However, just days after it was launched several reports of suicide and suicide attempt cases showed live on Facebook surfaced. After several such cases, Facebook pledged to improve how users can flag violent content.