UPDATED with funeral information

OVERLAND • A 15-year-old boy who fatally shot himself in the chest Friday was apparently trying to take a selfie when the gun accidentally discharged, police said Tuesday.

The photograph hasn’t been found — police will be asking a lab to access the boy’s cellphone — but that is the Overland police investigators’ leading theory in the death of DaMontez Jones.

The teen died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his right upper chest, and the shooting has been ruled an accident, police said.

The teen’s older brothers, who said they were in another room when DaMontez was shot, told their father about the idea of the selfie, too, said DaMontez’s father, Dennis Jones Sr.

“They said he was trying to take a picture and (the gun) went off,” Jones said.

The shooting happened about 7:30 p.m. Friday at a home in the 9500 block of Page Avenue. DaMontez was there with two older brothers, ages 16 and 17, and a younger half-sibling, Jones said. No adults were home. None of the children witnessed the shooting, police say.

DaMontez was rushed to a hospital, where he died.