The State - News from Aug. 21, 1988
For the second time since January, a student at Madison Middle School in Oakland has died playing Russian roulette, police said. Investigators said that while four teen-agers watched, 15-year-old DeWayne Jackson shot himself in the head with a .38-caliber revolver saying, “This is how (Ricky) did it.” The remark referred to Ricky Hamilton, 14, who fatally shot himself in a school locker room in January with a .357 Magnum he believed to be unloaded. Witnesses said Jackson was the only one playing the roulette game.
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