A 15-year-old girl accidentally killed herself in Sinaloa, Mexico, while filming a TikTok video with her younger brother.

Yazmin Esmeralda fatally shot herself with a 9-millimeter Uzi submachine gun while staying at her grandmother's house in Sinaloa, Mexico. Vice reports that Esmeralda found the gun last month at the bottom of a bedroom closet in her grandmother's home.

Officials believe she was inspired by the country's rampant drug culture and picked up the weapon to use as a prop in her TikTok video. Esmeralda posed with the firearm when it went off and woke her mother, and she died instantly.

Notably, there is only one official gun shop in the country, so officials are unaware of how the gun entered the home. Sara Bruna Quiñonez Estrada, Sinaloa's state prosecutor, told Vice World News civilians have a tough time owning weapons in Mexico. The 9-millimeter gun Esmeralda used is banned from Mexico's military after learning it tended to let off accidental rounds.   

"The fact that there were weapons in the house, that weren't controlled, is the responsibility of the adults who knew there were children in the house," Quiñonez Estrada said to Vice World News. 

"That she chose to record a clip [in that way] shows that our youth is immersed in that culture; It's what they hear about at all hours," she added.

With Sinaloa being home to one of the largest cartels in Mexico, officials believe the nation's drug trafficking is why Esmeralda felt confident enough to hold a gun. Sinaloa was previously the home of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzman.

"There are sectors [of society] that admire drug traffickers," María Teresa Guerra Ochoa, head of the state's women's ministry, said. "Many of them come from poverty, and so they're seen as symbols of success."

There has been no information on what will happen to the family for having an unofficial weapon in the home.

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