Posted on 01/26/2019 4:32:48 AM PST by SMGFan
A St. Louis police officer has been charged with killing a fellow officer after a Russian roulette-style game went horribly wrong. Nathaniel Hendren, 29, was charged Friday with involuntary manslaughter and armed criminal action, according to Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner and a probable cause statement.
Hendren, who was on-duty at the time of the shooting, and Katlyn Alix were allegedly playing a game where all but one bullet was removed from a revolver and the two would take turns pointing it at each other and pulling the trigger, according to the probable cause document.
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Former football player Herschel Walker said he played Russian Roulette a number of times but wasn't suicidal.
Hard for most to believe but Herschel said in effect that as a competitor, he regarded Russian Roulette as a form of ultimate competition.
To me, that does not pass the smell test. I think that they killed the girl. She was probably doing one or both of them and for one reason or another decided to break it off. They stopped by to get a little on the side. She said no and they became angry. For one reason or another one of them shot her. Why? Who knows. It could be a “If we can’t have you, no one will.” Or it could have happened in a second of uncontrollable rage. Whatever the reason, they have a girl on the floor dead or dying and what they are going to do? They come up with this story. And why not? By the time his lawyer gets through presenting his case to the jury, the jury will vote to have the judge and prosecutor arrested for persecuting this innocent person and putting him through this trauma. The victim? The victim has been forgotten since they took her out of the apartment in a body bag.
No, you are correct. Only the female officer, who was shot and killed, was off duty. I don't know if the Sergeant was the supervisor of the other male officer or not.
Pretty girl, but there is some crazy in those eyes.
Murder charge is warented. This wasn’t an accident
Based on her picture, I would have guessed she was in her 30s rather than the stated age of 24. Burning the candle at both ends does that to a person. Probably a nympho of some sort.
Was she conscious at all before she passed away? Any final words? Or is that between the cops?
“Reminds me of a story I heard about an actor in the 80’s, who was fooling around with a .44 magnum revolver loaded with blanks. He put it to his temple and pulled the trigger. What he didn’t realize was that the wadding alone for a blank in a gun that size is sufficient to kill you...” [Hardastarboard, post 54]
The guy’s name was Jon-Erik Hexum. He mortally wounded himself with a 44 cal blank on the set of the television series Cover Up.
Shaky judgment and poor knowledge of firearms also afflicted Hexum’s female co-star, actress/model Jennifer O’Neill.
Some time after Hexum’s demise, she shot herself in the abdomen with a small-caliber handgun, in her Westchester NY home. Didn’t know it was loaded, or some similar lame excuse. She recovered after treatment.
The incident caused a minor stir at the time as the gun was not registered with authorities: a requirement under New York State law since 1911. She was not prosecuted.
Can’t recall now if anti-gun activists made anything of it, but gun-rights organizations did point out that her self-wounding occurred just after New York officials cracked down on handguns found in possession of otherwise law-abiding citizens but lacking “proper” registration: too many perps getting shot in the act or frightened off.
A blank cartridge doesn’t need even so much as a wad to do lethal harm: the lacquered card which seals many blanks for military small arms is typically shattered and burned to ash before it reaches the muzzle. But the hot gases that do emerge are still deadly.
The energy contained in the powder of a blank is just as potent as that in the powder of any live round; at close range, the hot gases from a blank are moving just as quickly as any bullet, so the shockwave they create will shatter bone and eat into flesh just as violently.
The bullet of a live round is simply the means of conveying the kinetic energy generated by the burning powder to a distant target. It’s more dense than air and solid, so it loses velocity at a lower rate.
Exactly. I just don’t understand people doing that.
[My money is on a love triangle that went south, fast]
That was my first thought when I heard about this a couple of days ago.
yep
The best on is Waco. They were afraid the people inside were going to do something bad to themselves, so......
Actually, with a revolver, the odds increase with each pull of the trigger. Up to 6 pulls on a six-barrel where you’re guaranteed a hit by the last pull.
Similar thing happened to Terry Kath of the band Chicago in the late 1970’s.
[ Five out of six times? ]
Well it worked over 83% of the time.....
Only a Democrat would believe that it went down as described. One plays Russian Roulette by placing the gun to one's on head and pulling the trigger. Not how it was described in the story.
Actually what I read on Brandon Lee is that there was a “prop” round with the front of a bullet in the gun. This is so it looks “loaded” for the camera.
But there was still a wad which accelerated this and it struck him near his spine. At least that’s what I seem to recall.
I haven’t looked it up yet - read that in a story many years ago. But then again, the media....
the best ONE
As I understand Russian roulette you spin the cylinder between pulls rendering each pull the exact same 1 in 6 chance
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