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US network Fox News has apologised after screening live pictures of a carjacking suspect shooting himself in the head.
The shocking incident followed a high-speed car chase and came after the fleeing suspect abandoned his car and fled on foot into the Arizona desert.
He was seen producing a handgun, putting it to his right temple and then collapsing.
Outraged viewers bombarded Twitter, while a video of the incident briefly found its way onto YouTube.
Badly shaken senior anchorman Shepard Smith apologised profusely, saying: "We really messed up." He told viewers a five-second delay in the live feed should have ensured the graphic scene was not shown on air. "That didn't belong on TV," Smith said. "We took every precaution we knew how to take to keep that from being on TV.
"And I personally apologise to you ... That won't happen again on my watch."
Police later confirmed the man had died, with Twitter users criticising Fox News, part of Rupert Murdoch's media empire, for screening a suicide as it happened.
Police pursued the suspect at speeds of up to 175km/h for more than an hour, mostly on westbound Interstate 10. But from the expressway, the red Dodge Caliber hatchback veered onto dusty back roads near Salome, a town west of Phoenix.
The driver, wearing an American football jersey, was then seen fleeing, with no police officers visible in the aerial shot.
"He's looking kind of erratic, isn't he? It's possible he could be on something," said Smith in his commentary.
When the suspect shot himself, Smith shouted, "Get off it! Get off it!" in a plea to his studio colleagues to halt the live feed.
One viewer wrote on Twitter: "Cannot believe I just watched a live car chase for an hour and then watched him shoot himself in the head ... Crazy."
Media critics attacked the coverage. Al Tompkins, of the Florida-based Poynter Institute, said: "There is simply no excuse for this. It is sensationalism to carry it in the first place."
David Zurawik, of The Baltimore Sun,  wrote: "I am not sure there is an explanation for this kind of gatekeeping ineptitude."


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Stunned anchorman says sorry after network shows carjacker shooting himself in the head


Fox network apologises for showing police chase suicide live on TV

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Stunned anchorman says sorry after network shows carjacker shooting himself in the head