It wasn't the first photo the 43-year-old Concrete, Washington, resident had taken with his gun. But it would be the last.
The Skagit Valley Herald reported on Wednesday that the man, who officials did not name, fatally shot himself in the face while attempting to take a selfie with what he thought was an unloaded gun.
The man's girlfriend, who was with him when the gun went off, told authorities that the pair had taken several selfies with the gun throughout the day. The man unloaded the gun before each photo session, then replaced the bullets when they were done.
But before the final photograph, he apparently left one bullet inside the gun.
The man's girlfriend was with him when he died, Skagit County Sheriff's Office Chief of Patrol Chad Clark told the Skagit Valley Herald. Police are investigating his death as accidental.