TMZ Edits Graphic Video of Teen’s Murder as Advertisers Bail

TMZ edited out the portion where the teenager is shot and killed, after brands pull their ads from the site's video page

TMZ edited its video late Thursday night of a teenager's murder outside a Hollywood nightclub, as advertisers abandoned the gossip site and a Change.org petition gathered more than 200,000 signatures.

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The nearly two-minute video showed dozens of clubgoers brawling in a parking lot before one man pulls out a handgun and fires two shots.

It then replayed the murder in slow motion, showing a man — identified by TMZ and the victim's family as Andre Lowe — in jeans and a black hoodie lying face down on the ground.

The edited video freezes frame on the shooter for a few seconds before it ends.

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