LOS ANGELES — A game of Russian roulette ended with the death of a Southern California teenager who shot himself in the head early Monday, authorities said.
The 17-year-old fatally shot himself while playing the game inside an apartment in Torrance just after midnight, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
The potentially lethal game is typically played by putting a single bullet into a revolver, spinning the cylinder and then placing the muzzle of the gun against one’s temple.
The teen’s cousins had pleaded with the teen to put down the gun and stop playing, homicide Sgt. Scott Hoglund told KTBC-TV Channel 5. But he refused.
The teen was pronounced dead at a hospital.
Detectives reportedly recovered a weapon in the apartment.
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