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Teen charged after ‘friends with benefits’ lover fatally shot during ‘Russian roulette’ foreplay: cops
KTLA ^ | 08/16/2026 | Ariel Zilber

Posted on 08/17/2026 7:06:54 AM PDT by BenLurkin

A 19-year-old Virginia woman has been charged with involuntary manslaughter after her “friends with benefits” lover was fatally shot during consensual gun-toting foreplay that investigators described as a game of “Russian roulette.”

Ember McSpadden allegedly pulled the trigger of a partially loaded handgun three times while counting the clicks before the weapon discharged and struck 26-year-old Shane Brooks in the neck, WAVY-TV reported over the weekend.

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McSpadden, who was out on bond, appeared at a preliminary hearing Friday, where a judge found sufficient evidence for the involuntary manslaughter charge to move forward to a grand jury.

Her attorney, Artisha Gregg, maintained that Brooks’ death was a tragic accident that McSpadden neither intended nor foresaw.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: doineedtolook; isitthemyogi; itsalwaysthem; themagain; yesbooboo

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To: BenLurkin

What are the odds?


21 posted on 08/17/2026 7:43:35 AM PDT by bigbob (We are all Charlie Kirk now)
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To: BenLurkin

With this one, you just can’t be sure it was murder at play, rather than just crazy. She seems to display a reasonably high level of crazy, so it is just possible that murder was not her motive. It could sincerely just be complete crazy in the head.

It really feels like a murder set up to me, but with so much crazy I just can’t be sure.


22 posted on 08/17/2026 7:49:26 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (America -- July 4, 1776 to November 3, 2020 -- R.I.P.)
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To: MtnClimber

I'd hit it.

23 posted on 08/17/2026 7:53:18 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Technology can industrialize evil.)
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To: BenLurkin
If only there was a superhero who will ride to the rescue of this unfortunate young lady.


24 posted on 08/17/2026 7:55:21 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Technology can industrialize evil.)
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To: Lazamataz

I wonder if those were her “friend’s” last words.


25 posted on 08/17/2026 7:55:51 AM PDT by misterdarcey (Abandon all nuance, ye who enter here.)
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To: OldHarbor

RIP


26 posted on 08/17/2026 7:56:08 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (Good SCIENCE is Not Faith BUT Curiosity. )
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To: Red Badger

Aggie Russian roulette.


27 posted on 08/17/2026 7:58:41 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: Lazamataz
I'd hit it.

Would you play the revolver game?

28 posted on 08/17/2026 7:58:48 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: bigbob

3/6 apparently.


29 posted on 08/17/2026 7:59:35 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: BenLurkin

Stupid + Crazy + Guns = BadJuju


30 posted on 08/17/2026 7:59:42 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: rktman

“””“....partially loaded...”. The stoopid! It hurts!”””

Maybe the chick was partially pregnant and got confused or something.


31 posted on 08/17/2026 8:02:40 AM PDT by shelterguy
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To: BenLurkin

Darwin Award contender.


32 posted on 08/17/2026 8:03:04 AM PDT by falcon99 ( )
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To: bigbob

Actually, it’s a 66.7% chance of a ‘it’s on the 4th pull on a six-shooter.

So, contrary to what her attorney claims, it was absolutely not ‘unforeseeable’.


33 posted on 08/17/2026 8:09:23 AM PDT by Quality_Not_Quantity ("...for the sake of His name." Psalm 23:3)
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To: Quality_Not_Quantity

Hit, that is...


34 posted on 08/17/2026 8:09:57 AM PDT by Quality_Not_Quantity ("...for the sake of His name." Psalm 23:3)
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To: MtnClimber; Lazamataz

Laz would...


35 posted on 08/17/2026 8:12:05 AM PDT by null and void (Mongo just prawn in buffet of life)
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To: redfreedom
Was he so sex crazed over this young girl to just let her do it? Where were his brains?

Neck shot, still in his head, otherwise they'd be all over the wall.

36 posted on 08/17/2026 8:14:04 AM PDT by null and void (Mongo just prawn in buffet of life)
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To: TheThirdRuffian
3/6 apparently.

*click*

"You're almost there. Just keep clicking until you win!"

37 posted on 08/17/2026 8:15:19 AM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.)
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To: Lazamataz

Beat me by arf an our...


38 posted on 08/17/2026 8:16:02 AM PDT by null and void (Mongo just prawn in buffet of life)
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To: NorthMountain
Not exactly the same setup but the title fits


39 posted on 08/17/2026 8:17:32 AM PDT by xp38
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To: xp38

She’s a little freak, but she’ll take you in
You might be sittin’ at the end of a firing pin

Gun love, gun love, gun love
She’s a real gun lover tonight

Better hold on when she’s up to her tricks
Playin’ Russian Roulette but she’ll load all six

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAyI1fCqyvI&list=RDnAyI1fCqyvI&start_radio=1


40 posted on 08/17/2026 8:21:48 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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