NEW ORLEANS — A comedian known nationally for his YouTube videos under the stage name “Messy Mya” was shot and killed in the 7th Ward on Sunday night, and police are hoping a crime scene picture posted on Twitter might help them find the killer.”Messy Mya,” a 22-year-old whose real name is Anthony Barre, was gunned down in the 2000 block of North Rocheblave Street late Sunday night.Barre made YouTube videos in which the streets where his stage. he was known for “booking” people, or making fun of them in his videos. “I do this every day on the street … I walk around and talk about people,” he said in one video.Witnesses and neighbors said Barre had just left a baby shower for his unborn son when he was shot.”I was standing on my porch at my house and I heard five or six shots and I looked down the street and I seen everybody running,” said neighbor Brandon Early.Moments later, a photo of Barre’s body began circulating on the Internet via Twitter. The photo shows several hands appearing to check for a pulse on the wounded man, who is bleeding from his neck. Also in the photo is a hand that appears to be holding a cell phone very close to the man’s face.”When I did log on to my Facebook, they had people who had already leaked pictures of him laying down there right before he died or expired,” said a witness named Shanda.at least one version of the photo — believed to be the original posting — had been removed from Twitter photo service Twitpic by Monday afternoon.WDSU crime and safety specialist Howard Robertson said social networking sites are a positive and negative. In this case, the same sites that helped Messy Mya become famous are now showing his fans a closeup of his murder.”Unfortunately you can pick up any media source that we take for granted and see dead bodies, and you just become callous,” Robertson said. “If he’s looking for that reaction from somebody who doesn’t know what’s going on, and that’s what he’s getting, but you just don’t know what that reaction is going to be.”
YouTube Personality ‘Messy Mya’ Shot To Death
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