A Texas man is facing a murder charge after allegedly killing his friend while they were playing a dangerous game with a firearm.
Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez described the situation as “hard to believe.” The two men, Sean Odonnell, 37, and Aaron Prout, 34, reportedly took turns shooting at each other with a rifle while the other wore a Kevlar helmet inside a house on Pennington Hills Drive in Spring, about 30 miles north of downtown Houston — until the game turned deadly.
Deputies responded on Aug. 17 to a call that was initially reported as a possible suicide, Gonzalez said on social media.
They found Prout, a British national living in Texas, with a gunshot wound to the head. He was rushed to the hospital but could not be saved.
“Things weren’t adding up” with the suicide story, Gonzalez said. Detectives later charged Odonnell with murder on Thursday, Aug. 28, and he was booked into the Harris County Jail.
Odonnell is being held in jail on a $300,000 bond and is scheduled to appear before a judge on Sept. 2, according to Harris County court records. It’s not yet clear if he has entered a plea or hired an attorney.
