Prom revenge murder story on TikTok debunked [Video]

A news story about a revenge killing at a high school prom was found to be completely fake after making its rounds on TikTok. 

The news story was about a murder that allegedly occurred in Livonia, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. 

FOX 2 Detroit reported the TikTok video claimed a man named Douglass Barnes killed a teen girl named Samantha McCaffery as revenge for Samantha’s cop father, Mike McCaffery, killing Barnes’s son several years ago. 

However, the story was quickly found to be fake once the basic details were investigated: 

• The school where the prom was said to have happened, Livonia High School, does not exist in Michigan. 
• No person named Douglass Barnes lives in the state of Michigan. 
• A reverse-image search for the mugshot only pulls up stories about the fake murder, suggesting that the image itself may be AI-generated.
• Livonia Police confirmed to FOX 2 it was “fake news going around on …