Then I watched the video on social media.”ĭanielle Simpson, the girlfriend of Chaney’s grandson, said she reported dozens of sites after the video kept appearing over and over in her Facebook feed and she worried that Chaney’s family would see them. “I found out in a Facebook picture that my mom was gunned down. “I didn’t find out, nobody knocked on my door like the usual process,” he said. Celestine Chaney’s son, Wayne Jones, found out his mother had been killed when someone sent him a video screenshot from the livestream.
That was little consolation to family members of the victims.