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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
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To: xp38

Peggy is a naughty girl. Naught, naughty, naughty! She needs a spanking.


41 posted on 08/17/2026 8:22:34 AM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.)
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To: BenLurkin
pulled the trigger of a partially loaded handgun three times while counting the clicks before the weapon discharged

That's not Russian Roulette. That's murder with a countdown.

42 posted on 08/17/2026 8:26:19 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: Lazamataz

Thinkin’ you would step up. 😂👍🇺🇸


43 posted on 08/17/2026 8:27:45 AM PDT by rktman (Patriotism not 'hateriotism' !. Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🇺🇸)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
Messy and scraggly like she just rolled out of bed

Since it's a mug shot in prison garb, it's quite possible that they just showered her and put those clothes on her. I'm guessing after making the prisoner shower they don't put a lot of effort into their hair

44 posted on 08/17/2026 8:28:52 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there)
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To: BenLurkin
Ember McSpadden allegedly pulled the trigger of a partially loaded handgun three times while counting the clicks before the weapon discharged

LOL, aren't you supposed to pull the trigger ONCE?

45 posted on 08/17/2026 8:39:44 AM PDT by tlozo (“Russia war-Either money today or blood tomorrow," Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk )
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To: BenLurkin
Had a kid in my senior year of high school die playing Russian Roulette.

Damn shame.

46 posted on 08/17/2026 8:47:08 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: Red Badger

“Was it a semi auto?.......”

There’s a joke about that, it’s called Polish Roulette.


47 posted on 08/17/2026 8:51:15 AM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too. 😁 " - Robert Conquest )
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To: BenLurkin

19. Great.


48 posted on 08/17/2026 8:55:48 AM PDT by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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To: BenLurkin

Click on the link for a pic of the victim. He’s wearing a shirt that says “I feel lucky”.


49 posted on 08/17/2026 9:27:23 AM PDT by birdsman (NAAWP)
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To: BenLurkin

You can’t fix stupid, but here’s proof it can be ended. SMH


50 posted on 08/17/2026 9:28:23 AM PDT by chickenlips (Neuter your politicians )
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To: BenLurkin
‘Russian roulette’ foreplay

Get some action, or... splatter your brains all over the wall. Sounds like fun.

51 posted on 08/17/2026 10:10:19 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: BenLurkin

she sounds dumb but it also seems that if not for the hole in his head nobody would be able to tell that the boyfriend had fewer brains in his head than before.


52 posted on 08/17/2026 10:19:33 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie ("We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. F. B. I. is tending in that direction." - Harry S Truman)
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To: BenLurkin

Here is my Glock. I only partially loaded it. You go first.


53 posted on 08/17/2026 11:38:05 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: BenLurkin

It started long before that the 60’s and 70’s did a lot of damage to many then they had crotch fruit to make it worse.

Some still can’t pass a drug test and they haven’t had any in years.


54 posted on 08/17/2026 11:47:13 AM PDT by Vaduz (NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT)
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To: Vaduz

Don’t want ‘crotch fruit’


55 posted on 08/17/2026 12:02:42 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Nobody does but they are around and dangerous.


56 posted on 08/17/2026 12:08:46 PM PDT by Vaduz (NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT)
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To: Organic Panic

The wife of an NFL player tracked him to a hotel where he was with another woman. Chased him around with a pistol from home - her husband’s.

Told the police not to worry as she had unloaded it first. Turns out she just removed the magazine - there was a round in the chamber.


57 posted on 08/17/2026 12:16:33 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant - Never Fearful)
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To: OldHarbor

Russian Roulette and SHE pulled the trigger? THREE times?
I don’t think they were using Hoyle’s rulebook!


58 posted on 08/17/2026 4:23:08 PM PDT by gnickgnack2 ( Oh, Trumpy days are here again....)
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To: gnickgnack2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_roulette

Malcolm X, in his 1965 autobiography, recalls an incident during his burglary career when he played Russian roulette, pulling the trigger three times to convince his partners in crime that he was not afraid to die. In the epilogue, Alex Haley states that Malcolm X revealed to him that he palmed the round.[17]


they forgot to palm the round....................but it worked in the movies.


59 posted on 08/17/2026 4:33:44 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple ((Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere))
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To: BenLurkin

https://lyhottag13.github.io/russian-roulette/

internet version


60 posted on 08/17/2026 4:36:33 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple ((Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere))
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