article_snippet.sent: Defense attorney Patrick Thomassey says Morton panicked and took the selfie to send to a friend via Snapchat as 'proof' after a friend refused to believe what happened.
article_snippet.sent: That was a friend,' said the teenager's mother, Honey Morton, accoding to the station KDKA.
article_snippet.sent: Detective Bob Weaver testified in court that Morton had sent the selfie of Mangan's body slumped over a chair via an Xbox to a friend in Wisconsin.
article_snippet.sent: Morton was identified by police after Morton sent a selfie on Snapchat of Morton posing with Mangan's (above) body .
article_snippet.sent: The day after Mangan was found, a mother of one of Morton's friends told police Ryan received a selfie on Snapchat of the victim who was sitting in a chair with a bloody wound to Ryan face, according to the Post-Gazette.
article_snippet.sent: Morton's friend saved the image before the image deleted the image, as Snapchat lets users send images that are removed from the recipient's phone after a few seconds.
article_snippet.sent: Morton's friend also said Morton's friend received messages from Morton that said: 'I told you I cleaned up the shells', 'Ryan was not the last one' and 'got my first body.'
highlights_snippet.sent: Mother of Morton's friend told police Mother of Morton's friend son received Snapchat image of her son with victim - message had Maxwell written across victim - message .
  