[SMGFan]

Damn stupid does not cover this!

[arthurus]

“Horribly wrong.” No. that’s how the game works. Nothing went wrong after the decision to “play” the game.

[Flick Lives]

A St. Louis police officer has been charged with killing a fellow officer after a Russian roulette-style game went horribly wrong.

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When does Russian roulette ever go anything other than horribly wrong?

[Captain7seas]

You taunt the bull don’t be surprised when you get the horn.

[Larry Lucido]

“Funny. The last five times we played, it went fine.”

[Larry Lucido]

Also, don’t play it with a semi-auto. Just saying.

[Leaning Right]

A game of Russian roulette? Nope, not believing it. Not believing it at all. My money is on a love triangle that went south, fast.

[Bonemaker]

These are our”police”? Damn shame that 90% give the other 10% a bad name.

[csvset]

She was a Army vet, not sure about him. Mind boggling stupid.

[albie]

this is different than most games. Everybody lost. And these are police officers?!

[marktwain]

Many commenters at the site are claiming this is a "cover story" for murder.

But that makes no sense at all.

If they were coming up with a cover story, why one where one of them goes to prison and the other has his career ruined?

Shows real stupidity.

Over 40 years ago, In a University department I was associated with, a young police officer was said to have pointed his .45 at the head of another officer, in a joke.

There was a witness as well as the victim.

The foolish officer then said: "I guess I should have checked it first."

Then he checked it and found it was loaded.

Then he was fired.

My point is that police are capable of doing stupid things with guns.

[Flick Lives]

Hellmeier said, according to the probable cause statement, that "he advised that he told the defendant and victim that they shouldn't be playing with guns and that they were police officers. He felt uncomfortable with them playing with guns and didn't want to have any part of it and he started to leave. As he left the room but before leaving the apartment he heard a shot. He went back into the room and saw that the victim had been shot in the chest."

Anyone else thinks this explanation sounds a bit off. Three people involved. The victim, off duty cop Katlyn Alix, 24, and two cops on duty Nathaniel Hendren, 29, the shooter, and Sgt. Richard Hellmeier, Hendren's partner.

So we are to believe the two cops decided to play a game of Russian roulette and the sergeant advised against it but allegedly was going to just walk out of the apartment while they played their "game"? Any why were the two on duty cops at Alix's apartment in the first place?

[BenLurkin]

who else was there when it happened?

[FlingWingFlyer]

Play stupid games win stupid prizes.

[Vaquero]

“Russian roulette-style game went horribly wrong.”

1 in 6? Those odds do not make this ‘horribly wrong

“Didi mao “

[BradyLS]

The traditional rules are that you point the gun at yourself—not someone else!

Russian roulette my eye!

[Drew68]

The St. Louis Police Department had said Thursday following the shooting that Alix had been shot in an "accidental discharge" when Hendren "mishandled a firearm."

When you point a knowingly loaded gun at someone and pull the trigger, most of the time they function exactly as they were designed to do.

[Gay State Conservative]

Well,the good news here is that her heirs just won the lottery.

[ClearCase_guy]

Russian roulette-style shooting

Mueller is going to be all over this. This could be the end of Trump. I feel the walls closing in.

[Dr. Sivana]

I have NEVER heard of a woman playing Russian roulette. Never. This story sounds as likely as those ‘fan deaths” that newly-immigrated Korean men sometimes report when their wives are found asphyxiated.

[jocon307]

“armed criminal action”

I like that charge, a new one to me. But, if I ever have to start a new country and write its laws I’ll be sure to include this one.