A 19-year-old Virginia Beach woman now faces a grand jury after admitting to detectives that she shot her 26-year-old partner during a game of Russian roulette the pair were playing as part of consensual sexual foreplay.
Virginia Beach prosecutors formally charged Ember Rose McSpadden with involuntary manslaughter following the death of Shane Brooks, a National Guard veteran, in the early hours of 5 March 2026. A preliminary hearing on 14 August 2026 saw a judge certify the charge to a grand jury after hearing graphic testimony about how the shooting unfolded.