A regular game of “Let’s take turns wearing a kevlar helmet and shooting each other in the head” took a tragic turn for two Texas men last month, NBC News reports, citing Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzales’s announcement of the arrest of Sean O’Donnell in the death of his friend Aaron Prout.
Cops on August 17th had responded to O’Donnell’s home on August 17th to find Prout lying on the ground with a gunshot wound to the head, later succumbing at a nearby hospital. The incident was first believed to be a suicide but, per Gonzales, “things weren’t adding up.” It’s not clear if O’Donnell, 46, confessed or what but cops determined that the two had been taking turns putting on a kevlar helmet while the other fired a rifle at his head. Also unclear is if the fatal round had pierced through the helmet or if O’Donnell had missed and hit Prout in an exposed area. Which might happen if you’ve already been shot in the head a few times and/or as drunk as the two probably were.