By Prantik Ali

The story uses only screenshots and not the actual viral video in view of the graphic nature of the clip.

A video is viral on WhatsApp in particular with the claim that a house painter, hailing from the town of Rampur in Uttar Pradesh, has been shot dead by an unknown assailant in Kerala.

This graphic video shows a man, who appears to be painting a wall while standing on a wooden support, shot from a close distance, at least seventeen times in a space of 13 seconds.

Alt News received multiple requests on its WhatsApp helpline to verify the video. Some messages said the incident was from Uttarakhand, some said Noida.

On WhatsApp, the video is accompanied by a recorded voice message (attached below) which says the following:

“This is an incident from Kerala. See if anyone can recognize this painter. Check if he belongs to someone’s family, or is a relative to someone. See what has happened to him. He is from Rampur zilla, identify him if you know him.”

On X, a user named स्वतंत्र पत्रकार (@journalistkk01) shared the video stating the incident could be from Muzaffarnagar district.

Fact Check

We ran a reverse image search on one of the key frames from the clip and came across an X post from June 29.

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