TikTok Cosplayer Shoots Woman In Head While Pretending To Be Batman Villain

Mary Ann Oliver-Snow, a 23-year-old TikToker, has been charged with second-degree felony manslaughter after shooting her friend in the head.

Oliver-Snow shot her high school friend Helen Rose Hastings, 19, during a drunken, drug-fueled night of partying. Their group of friends decided to play with a handgun, and the results were catastrophic.

According to witnesses, Oliver-Snow believed that she had removed the magazine from the gun. However, all present were too inebriated to remember whether she had put the magazine back in.

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The incident took place on January 17 of this year at 1:30 AM in Houston, Texas. There were six witnesses in the house at the time of the shooting. According to the police report, the gun belongs to an ex-boyfriend of Oliver-Snow’s, who left it behind when he moved out.

Oliver-Snow told police she did not know there were bullets in the gun. She also admitted that she had "played with it before, as a joke." According to all who were present, Hastings approached Oliver Snow and said, “Ooooh, shoot me, shoot me!” Oliver-Snow obliged, not realizing that the gun was loaded. According to another friend who witnessed the shooting, this sort of behavior is not unusual for these friends, who are “wild, dumb, and does jokes [sic] all the time.”

On January 18, Oliver-Snow was indicted by a grand jury for manslaughter, “unlawfully, recklessly” causing Hastings’ death. By January 19, Oliver-Snow was free on $20,000 bond. At this point, Oliver-Snow, who has gained a following of 1.6 million for her cosplay videos, changed her TikTok handle from SnowTheSaltQueen to Yandere.Freak.

In anime, a yandere is a character archetype—obsessive, lovestruck, impulsive, foolish, and prone to violent outbursts (e.g., Harley Quinn when she’s under The Joker’s spell. Interestingly enough, Yandere.Freak sports Harley Quinn-inspired looks frequently, including pigtails and mismatched red-and-blue eyeshadow).

Even more disturbing is Oliver-Snow’s propensity for lip-syncing songs about murdering people while she dances for the camera. She has kept her TikTok and Instagram accounts active, and on multiple occasions has dressed in anime-related costumes that feature the tasteless (given the context) flourish of blood spatter. However, more of the general public has caught wind of the story and has connected Oliver-Snow to the cosplay social media accounts, recently. Oliver-Snow has responded by recently making her TikTok account private.

The late Helen Rose Hastings, who was a freshman at Oberlin, received a memorial tribute in the school newspaper, remembering her for her “laughter, enthusiasm, compassion,” and desire to help people.

The next step in Oliver-Snow’s case is a hearing before Judge Chris Morton to exchange evidence.

According to multiple reports, Oliver-Snow has violated the terms of her bond throughout the month of August. She missed a pretrial date related to the case, has violated her curfew, and she allowed the battery on her GPS tracking device to die. She has also failed to check in as instructed.