Russian roulette ends badly for man who was playing with dog

A man in Indiana, U.S lost his life, when he lost during a game of Russian roulette against his pet dog. Russell Little, who was known to suffer from depression, had been drinking moonshine for several hours on Tuesday evening when he decided to play the deadly game, with his dog in the backyard of his home, in South Bend, Indiana.

At around 9pm Mr Little picked up his hand gun announced to his wife that he was going to play Russian roulette, it’s thought that he aimed at his dog a couple of time but let of empty rounds, before turning the gun on himself.

Captain Jim Andrews, of the South Bend Police Department, told the local newspaper his wife ‘said he got tired of that, then put the gun to his own head and pulled the trigger’.

On hearing the gunshot Mrs Little called the police and when they arrived her husband was still alive, he was then rushed to Memorial hospital where doctors battled to save him for 45 minutes. The local paper, the South Bend Tribune, said that an X-ray revealed the bullet entered just above Mr Little’s right ear and ended up lodged in the right side of his skull.

Shocked neighbours gathered outside Mr and Mrs Little’s home after the incident, many said that they heard gunshots, but they had no idea what had happened.

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