Ex-Cop Pleads Guilty To Killing Colleague In Game Of Russian Roulette

Katlyn Alix, a wife and police officer who had been on the force for two years, was shot and killed in January 2019 while off-duty.

Alix, 24, had agreed to play a game of Russian roulette with fellow St. Louis police officer Nathaniel Hendren, 30. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that Hendren and his partner, Patrick Riordan, were on duty at the time of the shooting but had skipped a call about an alarm going off at a business in order to hang out with Alix. Hendren and Alix were “dry firing” their personal guns, the Post-Dispatch reported, when Hendren removed all the bullets from his revolver except for one. He then spun the cylinder and pulled the trigger while aiming at Alix. When the gun didn’t fire, he handed the weapon to Alix, who aimed and Hendren and pulled the trigger. Again, the gun didn’t fire, so Hendren took it back, aimed it at Alix’s chest, and fired. This time, the gun went off and struck Alix.