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.

[Sirius Lee]

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

[PAR35]

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.

[rktman]

Thinkin’ you would step up. 😂👍🇺🇸

[ChildOfThe60s]

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

[tlozo]

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?

[Psalm 73]

Had a kid in my senior year of high school die playing Russian Roulette.

Damn shame.

[PLMerite]

“Was it a semi auto?.......”

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

[sauropod]

19. Great.

[birdsman]

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

[chickenlips]

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

[Sicon]

‘Russian roulette’ foreplay

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

[pepsi_junkie]

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.

[Organic Panic]

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

[Vaduz]

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.

[BenLurkin]

Don’t want ‘crotch fruit’

[Vaduz]

Nobody does but they are around and dangerous.

[21twelve]

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.

[gnickgnack2]

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

[PeterPrinciple]

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]

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

[PeterPrinciple]

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

internet version