The State - News from Sept. 13, 1989
Police in Menlo Park said Sandro Loya bet 5-to-1 that he could win at “Russian roulette,” emptied all but one chamber of a .38-caliber revolver, and pulled the trigger. The 20-year-old man died of a bullet to the brain. “They were bad odds,” said Assistant Police Chief Dominick Peloso.
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