17-year-old playing solo Russian roulette in front of his friends shoots himself dead

The Daily Mail ^ | 7/30/2015 | By Dailymail.com Reporter

[rikkir]

A teenager has died in Colorado after playing a game of Russian roulette while hanging out with his friends.

Cruisito Leiba, 17, suffered a single gunshot wound to the head, said the Pueblo County Coroner's office.

His friends said the teen had been playing with a shotgun when he fired it. He died in hospital.

Several other teens were at the home when the incident happened but Leiba was the only one playing Russian roulette.

'He shot it once, nothing happened,' his friend Selena Aguila told CBS Denver. 'He shot it twice, nothing happened. Then, he shot it the third time and we heard a big bang.'

When officers arrived Leiba was still breathing. He was taken to hospital, where he passed away.

Capt. Kenny Rider told KRDO: 'This game is absolutely dangerous. It will kill you. And we do not want any kids playing this game, or adults.'

[Mister Da]

One less burden on the welfare/prison system.

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

Also notice in the story it says he was playing with a shotgun, and the later it says he was spinning the chamber.

Tarus manufactures "The Judge", which is a revolver with a rifled barrel and a long cylinder which can hold 3" 410 shot shells. The cylinder can also fire .45 Long Colt cartridges.

There is a similar hand gun manufactured in the US, I think it's made by Smith & Weston.

BATFE regs require such guns to have rifled barrels. 410 shells are available with bird shot, buck shot, and rifled slugs, as well as a special load with buck shot and several flat disks.

Regards,
GtG

PS These hand guns are not considered "short barreled" shotguns by the ATF. The dreaded "SB" shotguns aka "sawed off shotguns" fall under ATF regulations as Class III weapons and require you to file an ATF Form 4 and pay a $200 excise tax, failure to do that is a Federal Felony and carries a stiff fine and a long stay at the crowbar motel.

[Junior_G]

Fishy-sounding story. Seems especially odd that a law enforcement officer would refer to the act of shooting oneself in the head as a “game” that people shouldn’t play.