Authorities in Indiana say a man played a game of Russian roulette with his dog - and lost.
Russell Little suffered a fatal gunshot wound to the head while in his backyard on Tuesday, the South Bend Tribune reported.
The man's wife, who was not identified, told police he had been depressed and drinking moonshine at the time of the incident.
Little initially put the gun to the dog's head and pulled the trigger several times, but nothing happened, police say the wife told them.
"She said he got tired of that, then put the gun to his own head and pulled the trigger," Capt. Jim Andrews of the South Bend Police Department told the newspaper.
Little did not die at the scene, but "still [had] a pulse" when he was rushed to Memorial Hospital. He died shortly afterward.
