Young children are being tricked into watching extremely graphic video of Ronnie McNutt's suicide, leaving some with nightmares.
A Twitter user told how her 10-year-old "traumatised" sister "woke up out of her sleep crying" and begged people to stop posting the footage on social media.
Iraq War veteran Mr McNutt, 33, live streamed video on Facebook when he fatally shot himself at his home in the US city of New Albany Mississippi, on August 31.
The video wasn't taken down for almost two hours and it was still being posted this week on social media under fake titles or hidden within clips aimed at young children.
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