U.S. soldier kills self while playing Russian roulette

[News_Editor]

U.S. soldier kills self while playing Russian roulette

2011-03-08 08:45:26 GMT+7 (ICT)

ANCHORAGE (BNO NEWS) -- A U.S. soldier was killed in Alaska on early Sunday morning while playing Russian roulette with another soldier, police said on Monday.

Anchorage Police spokeswoman Anita Shell said police responded to a shooting at a home in the community of Eagle River at 2.07 a.m. local time. First responders found a 26-year-old army soldier who was suffering from a gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at a local hospital.

"According to witness accounts, the victim had stayed Friday night at the Eagle River home of Jacob Brouch, 25, stationed in Alaska from California," Shell said. "At some point in time on Saturday, the two men began drinking and posing for photos with a revolver belonging to Brouch. Eventually the gun-play resulted in a game of Russian roulette."

Detectives believe the victim, who is from North Carolina, was holding the gun to his stomach when he accidentally fired the weapon. Brouch, his wife, and their teenage children were in the home at the time of the incident, but there were no other injuries.

Police have since charged Brouch with Murder in the Second Degree for knowingly providing the weapon which resulted in the death of his friend. He has been transported to the Anchorage Jail.

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[BKKarim]

I feel sorry for the dude, if they were really ready for a round of Russian roulette, they must have been retarded, totally drunk or on some spiritual level. played Russian roulette "right" - you would never know that you had bad luck, you would have no time to regret to have played it. No time to feel sorry, be worried or angry about it if you had lost the game. But all thoughts and also pain will come up if you shot yourself accidentally in the stomach before. Not a nice way to go.

How comes it to the murder charges?

Are the gun laws in America not that liberal and easy as i assume but more restricted?

So that even in Eagle River, Alaska what sounds so deep behind the snowy mountain a gun owner is not allowed to borrow/share his gun to someone else, even if it is an adult, a soldier, someone who is familiar with and trained how to use guns and firearms, someone who has maybe his own guns.

Or is it murder because the gun owner is maybe allowed to borrow his gun, but definitely not to someone who declares that he is up to nonsense and starts to play Russian roulette in front of his eyes?

[krading]

What about the shop that sold the gun?

What about the factory that made the gun?

What about the TV station that first televised a show about 'Russian Roullete'

Where does it end?

[krading]

And everybody hates the Yanks.