Florida Teen Kills Self During Game Of Russian Roulette

[News_Editor]

Florida teen kills self during game of Russian Roulette < br />

2012-07-01 23:39:42 GMT+7 (ICT)

LARGO, FLORIDA (BNO NEWS) -- A U.S. teenager, who was critically injured earlier this week while playing a game of Russian Roulette with friends, has died at a hospital in central Florida, police said on Sunday.

The incident happened at approximately 7:30 p.m. local time on Friday when 17-year-old Thorin R. Montgomery was playing a game of Russian Roulette with his friends at his home in Largo, a city about 19 miles (30 kilometers) west of Tampa. First responders found him suffering from a gunshot wound to the head.

Detectives said Montgomery was playing the game with three of his friends, ages 19, 18 and 16, in the back porch of the house. "Montgomery was the first of his friends to have a turn at the game when the gun discharged and he received a gunshot wound to the head," the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office said in a statement.

Montgomery was airlifted to Bayfront Medical Center in St. Petersburg and remained in a critical condition until he died on early Sunday morning. Police said the Medical Examiner's Office will conduct an autopsy in the coming days to officially determine the cause and matter of death.

Officials have not said whether anyone will face charges or if Montgomery's parents knew about the game.

In March 2011, 26-year-old U.S. soldier Michael Metthew McCloskey was killed while playing Russian Roulette with another soldier at a house in the Alaskan community of Eagle River. The second soldier, 25-year-old Jacob Brouch, was later charged with Murder in the Second Degree for knowingly providing the weapon which resulted in the death of his friend.

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[Daffy D]

Sorry for the death of another young life but that's how the game works.

[LucidLucifer]

Why, oh why, would someone be so bloody stupid?

Not only him, but his mates aswell.

A shocking waste of life.....RIP.

Edited July 2, 2012 by LucidLucifer

[Javabear]

Idiot was probably using an automatic.

[Scott]

Young people tend to think they are indestructible. I had a friend when I was young who died playing Russian Roulette. The only thing good that came out of it was that for the next 20+ years kids didn't play it in the area.

I hope a lesson was learned by a lot of young people.

[w11guy]

You win some, you lose some. I wonder what the IQ of this group of friends was. Probably under 100 if you combined them all.

[koheesti]

"Montgomery was the first of his friends to have a turn at the game when the gun discharged and he received a gunshot wound to the head," the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office said in a statement.

If he was the only one to take a turn, meaning the only one to put the gun to his head and pull the trigger, does that count as really playing the game? To a neighbor watching through a window it would look like 4 guys sitting around, three doing nothing while the 4th puts a gun to his head and pulls the trigger. That would be bizarre.

[Scott]

It's hardly a game. The Winner is the Loser.

[FATOZ]

Darwin Awards come to mind

[siam cbr]

How else are you supposed to prove you've got big balls?

I wonder how many females die from playing this 'game'.

[zydeco]

Looking at some of the American press reports and photos, this kid came from a lower income area. Just might be that he saw no future other than the adreno rush he could get by putting his life on the line. Times are pretty bleak for a lot of people in America these days.

[siam cbr]

I immediately guessed that he was black.

Though someone saying that he was might be racist.

[transam]

''The Deer Hunter'' comes to mind.

[Scott]

I believe he is white.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2167218/Teenager-dies-shooting-head-playing-Russian-Roulette.html

[crobe]

chalk up another success for the NRA

RIP - no-one should go this way

[Javabear]

chalk up another success for the NRA

RIP - no-one should go this way

What does the NRA have to do with this? There is no NRA here in Thailand yet there seem to be plenty of guns around.

[Ulysses G.]

Only an idiot or someone who is suicidal would play this game and if one is suicidal, why not go ahead and fill every chamber.

[chuckd]

chalk up another success for the NRA

RIP - no-one should go this way

The revolver is an inanimate object. The idiot pulling the trigger is not.

[siam cbr]

chalk up another success for the NRA

RIP - no-one should go this way

The revolver is an inanimate object. The idiot pulling the trigger is not.

And hence they should be kept away from them.

The human race just isn't intelligent or developed enough to handle weapons that kill with such ease... as much as that dents our ego.

[transam]

Might l suggest that they were smoking some stuff and one thing led to another.

[coma]

Strictly revolvers for beginners. Preferably an 8 barrel to a six.

[Pseudolus]

Tragic. Maybe the Americans should be a bit more vocal for school lessons on evolution, natural selection, and Darwinism in general in that their country is both the leading proponent these days for creationism whilst having the largest occurrence of the very proof of natural selection on a yearly basis. Oh, and a lesson on one other simple fact; a loaded weapon will kill if if pressed to the head and discharged.

[Credo]

Tragic. Maybe the Americans should be a bit more vocal for school lessons on evolution, natural selection, and Darwinism in general in that their country is both the leading proponent these days for creationism whilst having the largest occurrence of the very proof of natural selection on a yearly basis. Oh, and a lesson on one other simple fact; a loaded weapon will kill if if pressed to the head and discharged.

Nice shot at Americans. I wonder why they call it Russian roulette?

[koheesti]

chalk up another success for the NRA

RIP - no-one should go this way

The revolver is an inanimate object. The idiot pulling the trigger is not.

He is now.

[Jingthing]

Tragic. Maybe the Americans should be a bit more vocal for school lessons on evolution, natural selection, and Darwinism in general in that their country is both the leading proponent these days for creationism whilst having the largest occurrence of the very proof of natural selection on a yearly basis. Oh, and a lesson on one other simple fact; a loaded weapon will kill if if pressed to the head and discharged.

Nice shot at Americans. I wonder why they call it Russian roulette?

In Russia, it's just roulette.

[Neurath]

Young males displaying that they have cahones - not too much dissimilar to racing motorcycles on Vipawadee-Rangsit here.

[Puschl]

Tragic. Maybe the Americans should be a bit more vocal for school lessons on evolution, natural selection, and Darwinism in general in that their country is both the leading proponent these days for creationism whilst having the largest occurrence of the very proof of natural selection on a yearly basis. Oh, and a lesson on one other simple fact; a loaded weapon will kill if if pressed to the head and discharged.

Not every US-American does despise Darwin, nor is every US-American pro 2nd armamendment (pun intended).

Nice shot at Americans. I wonder why they call it Russian roulette?

Because a Swiss pulp fiction writer working for a US weekly magazine found it chic to allege invention of the "game" to Russian soldiers facing an unpromising battle in the Romanian WW1 arena.

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Condoms don't protect against STDs, people do.

[transam]

We ALL did daft stuff when we were young, perhaps the macho thing eh.