Teen asks for help disposing body on Instagram video chat. Is then arrested for homicide

A Pennsylvania teen has been arrested after allegedly killing a girl and using Instagram to ask for help with disposing the body.

Police in Bensalem say 911 operators received a call from a woman who said her daughter was shown the victim’s dead body by a 16-year-old acquaintance, later identified as Joshua Cooper, via an Instagram chat.

“During the video chat, the 16-year-old stated that he had just killed someone,” police said in a statement. He then flipped the video image and showed the legs and feet of someone covered in blood.”

The young man then asked the teen for help disposing the body, police said.

Police were advised Cooper lived at a mobile home property in Bensalem. When officers arrived, they saw a young man running out from the back of the trailer.