Abraham Biggs was a college student from South Florida, U.S..
He committed suicide by overdosing on opiates and benzodiazepine, in front of a live web audience coming from bodybuilding.com.
Biggs, who used the screen name 'CandyJunkie' on the forum website, was only 19 years old, when the police barged into his home and found his lifeless body overdosed with drugs.
The police was alerted when the site moderator pinpointed Biggs' location.
Biggs had started blogging about his plans to kill himself, 12 hours before his death.
The man who was said struggling with bipolar disorder, posted a link from the body building website to Justin.tv, a platform that allows users to broadcast live videos from their webcams, under the username 'feels_like_ecstacy.'
It began earlier, when Biggs created a thread called "Ask a guy who is gonna OD (again) tonight anything." It included a link to his live video stream on Justin.tv.
When a forum user asked why Biggs was doing this, he responded: "I wanna die dur."
The discussion thread grew to over 60 pages.
At first, none of the users who read his blog alerted the police, simply because none took him seriously. After all, he was also known to have create numerous threads about drug overdosing, including one which he titled "I'm gonna have 40 2mg bars of Xanax Tonight!", a feat that he never really made.
In other words, Biggs was known to bluff more than often.
Biggs had in the past, also threatened to commit suicide on the site before, but never killed himself. People didn't trust him.
This was why he was egged by his viewers.
Because of this, Biggs really attempted to overdose himself on pills live on his webcam, in which he appeared to collapse soon after on a bed.
Since the feed was still on, Biggs was still on camera, with viewers capable of seeing him breathing for hours.
With viewers still viewing, occasionally trolling and still making fun, then it was hard to tell if Biggs was still breathing. Since Biggs didn't move for a long time, viewers started to worry. One tried to call him through his number, which was previously shared on the forum, and none was answered. Calls went straight to the voice mail, wrote one member.
At this point, another member started to take this case seriously, and called the police.
"Police are on it (Yes called them)," wrote one poster. "I think there's a high chance of fraudin going on here, but even more reason to bust him hard on it. He's either in a lot of trouble, or will be woken up soon when they kick in his door. Watch the cam for swat team."
Biggs' feed kept running until the police broke Biggs’ door down around 40 minutes later, and blocked the camera’s view.
Biggs' death was confirmed by Broward County medical examiner, and the Justin.tv video and many of the forum posts have then been taken down.
When asked about the broadcast via email, Justin.tv CEO Michael Seibel said:
"We regret that this has occurred and respect the privacy of the broadcaster and his family during this time. We have policies in place to discourage the distribution of distressing content and our community monitors the site accordingly. This content was flagged by our community, reviewed and removed according to our terms of service."
Both the body building forum and Justin.tv declined to say how many people were watching the broadcast.
Biggs' family was angered by this incident, blaming the platforms, the users who watched them, and also the police for not responding quick enough to save the young Biggs' life.
"When (police) came in, the webfeed stopped. So that's 12 hours of watching," said his sister, Rosalind Biggs, who said her brother struggled with bipolar disorder. "They got hits, they got viewers, nothing happened for hours."
"It boggles the mind," she said. "We don't understand."
Biggs' father, Abraham Biggs, Sr., also said that those who watched the feed share some blame in his son's death.
"We were very good friends," he said of his relationship with his son. "It's wrong that it was allowed to happen."