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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.

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1 posted on 08/17/2026 7:06:54 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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Ever since the lockdowns, people have lost touch with reality.


2 posted on 08/17/2026 7:07:41 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

I wonder if they ever saw The Deer Hunter?


3 posted on 08/17/2026 7:12:09 AM PDT by xp38
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To: BenLurkin
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.

4 posted on 08/17/2026 7:12:31 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: BenLurkin

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


5 posted on 08/17/2026 7:13:01 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (Good SCIENCE is Not Faith BUT Curiosity. )
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6 posted on 08/17/2026 7:13:09 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: xp38

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


7 posted on 08/17/2026 7:13:58 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: BenLurkin

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


8 posted on 08/17/2026 7:14:29 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: BenLurkin

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


9 posted on 08/17/2026 7:14:50 AM PDT by rktman (Patriotism not 'hateriotism' !. Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🇺🇸)
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To: BenLurkin

Play stupid games - win stupid prizes.


10 posted on 08/17/2026 7:16:07 AM PDT by Optimist
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To: BenLurkin

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


11 posted on 08/17/2026 7:16:10 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America....so great even the people that hate it won't leave!)
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To: BenLurkin

More like “enemies with benefits”


12 posted on 08/17/2026 7:17:12 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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She’s lucky he’s charged with involuntary manslaughter rather than murder
13 posted on 08/17/2026 7:18:32 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: BenLurkin
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.

14 posted on 08/17/2026 7:20:09 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: BenLurkin

Was it a semi auto?................🙄


15 posted on 08/17/2026 7:22:44 AM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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To: MtnClimber

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.


16 posted on 08/17/2026 7:27:26 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: MtnClimber; Lazamataz

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


17 posted on 08/17/2026 7:31:45 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

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.


18 posted on 08/17/2026 7:38:14 AM PDT by xp38
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To: BenLurkin

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?


19 posted on 08/17/2026 7:40:22 AM PDT by redfreedom (The Forth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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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.

20 posted on 08/17/2026 7:40:43 AM PDT by OldHarbor
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