You know how it goes — you invite the guys over to take drugs, inhale aerosols, have sex in your dungeon and play a little Russian roulette with your .44 caliber Rossi revolver. Then someone gets killed and everyone judges.
Bruce Lavallee-Davidson, 50, was in the midst of a 12-hour orgy of sex toys, drugs and guns with Fred Wilson, 50, and James Pombriant, 65, in a dungeon in South Portland, Maine, which they kept for exactly this purpose. He'd also brought some guns along as part of the "sexual fantasy". It was all going swimmingly when Lavallee-Davidson, a Dartmouth grad who recently testified in favor of gay marriage, went to use the bathroom. When he came back:
Wilson asked him to put the gun to his head and pull the trigger to intensify his pleasure, the defense contends. On the first try, there was a click when Lavallee-Davidson pulled the trigger. Wilson asked him to do it again, and there was a flash, the defense says.
And here's some nice scene-setting by the AP reporter:
Pombriant, who was engaged in a sex act with the victim when the shot rang out, says there was a moment of silence before Lavallee-Davidson said, "I think I killed him."
The two men waited a day — a day one would assume was filled with panic and unpleasantness — then called the police, who also recovered a .12 gauge Mossberg shotgun that was used in the games. The prosecution say they don't dispute that the killing was accidental, but say Lavallee-Davidson should have checked the gun more carefully for bullets. Hence manslaughter.
