Game crashes when the player touches an enemy

[visual thicket]

Hi, I am making a top-down view game, it's very simple: enemies spawn randomly and follow the player, so the player has to shoot them. If an enemy touches the player, you lose. But sometimes when they collide, the game crashes before the game over screen.
I noticed that apparently the bug doesn't happen when the player isn't moving when they collide, but other than that it's very inconsistent

[vocal spindle]

-4 means noone

which means that instance_place didn't find an instance

just add an extra if _EnemyTouching != noone

[visual thicket]

ok thanks

[vocal spindle]

actually

replace that if place_meeting

with the if !=noone check

[visual thicket]

ok

[vocal spindle]

no reason to calculate it twice

or maybe not?

do you move your object inside here?

idk

depends on your code

[visual thicket]

yes

it worked, thx

[vocal spindle]

that's probably why then
your _EnemyTouching becomes "outdated" because you moved
so your place_meeting check is checking at a different spot than _enemyTouching

if you don't use _EnemyTouching inside that if
i'd recommend moving it down to after you moved

so that it's up to date with the position