Teen charged after ‘friends with benefits’ lover fatally shot during ‘Russian roulette’ foreplay: cops

KTLA ^ | 08/16/2026 | Ariel Zilber

[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.

[BenLurkin]

Ever since the lockdowns, people have lost touch with reality.

[xp38]

I wonder if they ever saw The Deer Hunter?

[texas booster]

was a tragic accident that McSpadden neither intended nor foresaw.

Umm, you have a loaded gun and shoot it several times, and can't understand that a live bullet is in one of the chambers?

Guilty.

And I have never heard of firearms being involved in THAT type of foreplay.

[Big Red Badger]

“Fundamentally Transform” has come
To Fruition...
Thanks Obama.

[MtnClimber]

[FamiliarFace]

I’d bet you anything they think that movie is about Bambi.

[from occupied ga]

She may not have intended it, but unless she’s significantly dumber that Kamala Harris she sure could have foreseen it.

[rktman]

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

[Optimist]

Play stupid games - win stupid prizes.

[V_TWIN]

Well, there’s a headline you don’t see every day....thank goodness.

[GSWarrior]

More like “enemies with benefits”

[from occupied ga]

She’s lucky he’s charged with involuntary manslaughter rather than murder

[PGR88]

foreplay that investigators described as a game of “Russian roulette.”

Call me old-fashioned, but a game of Russian Roulette would not help me become aroused.

[Red Badger]

Was it a semi auto?................🙄

[Opinionated Blowhard]

The eyes aren’t necessarily “crazy eyes” but the hair gives it away. Messy and scraggly like she just rolled out of bed. I’m surprised this was a “friends with benefits” relationship if the guy was only 26. I was expecting 50 or 60.

[BenLurkin]

If only there was a superhero who will ride to the rescue of this unfortunate young lady.

[xp38]

Well if that mug shot was taken on the night of the incident she might well have just rolled out of bed. There is another pic in the article. She seems to be sporting a nose ring which isn’t evident in the mug shot.

[redfreedom]

With all the violence on TV showing people being shot dead, one would think this girl would have had enough brains not to play this deadly game. And what about the guy? Was he so sex crazed over this young girl to just let her do it? Where were his brains?

[OldHarbor]

I don’t know about this one.

A link to his obituary

Shane Winston Brooks

Avid hunter , pilot’s license , 10 years in VA National Guard, tour in Iraq , Staff Sgt.

Not sure I buy her story.