 Matthew Minkler, the teenager whose body was found inside an abandoned Henderson house late Friday, was killed during a modified game of “Russian roulette,” according to police records. “We know this wasn’t Russian roulette,” his mother, Jamie Shanklin, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Wednesday. Minkler’s body was apparently dragged to a downstairs closet after he was shot dead in the kitchen, according to the probable cause arrest report for Caruso and Harlan. Jaiden Caruso, 16, is facing a charge of murder with a deadly weapon, while another teenager, Kody Harlan, 17, is facing charges of accessory to murder after the fact and destroying evidence, police confirmed. TENNESSEE MAN FATALLY SHOOTS HALF-BROTHER AFTER ARGUMENT OVER HONEY BUN 
 
 The pair are being charged as adults and are being held at Clark County Detention Center after initially being booked into the county’s juvenile detention center. Police said a homicide investigation began earlier on Friday after officers tried to pull over a vehicle that was being driven recklessly near East Sunset Road and Green Valley Parkway. Police said they tried to pull over a stolen Mercedes being driven recklessly by Harlan, but when the car blew through a red light and crashed into landscaping, several juveniles inside it got out and ran. He then led officers to the abandoned 3,717-square-foot house on Cool Lilac Avenue, which sits on the edge of a well-kept neighborhood near South Eastern Avenue. The report offered a chillingly simple explanation of the game: “Russian roulette is known to be a deadly game of loading a single bullet into a revolver, spinning the cylinder and then pulling the trigger.” 
 
 It is unclear how the three boys knew one another. Shanklin said that on Matthew’s way out of the house Friday, he told his family, ‘Tell mom I love her.” 
 
 Matthew had just finished his junior year at Silverado High School and was set to graduate next school year.
– Police in Nevada say two teenage suspects are claiming their friend died in a game of "modified Russian roulette." Relatives of 17-year-old Matthew Minkler say the teens weren't playing Russian roulette—and they were only pretending to be his friends. Minkler's body was found Friday in an abandoned house in Henderson, 16 miles north of Las Vegas, reports Fox News. Police went to the house based on information they received after Jaiden Caruso, 16, and Kody Harlan, 17, were arrested in a stolen Mercedes in Las Vegas earlier in the day. Police say Harlan told them he had "been present at a murder" and led them to the house, where Minkler's body had been dragged to a downstairs closet. Russian roulette involves "loading a single bullet into a revolver, spinning the cylinder, and then pulling the trigger," a police report states. Harlan told police that after Caruso brought out his revolver, he "never allowed the other participants to handle the firearm or pull the trigger themselves." "We know this wasn't Russian roulette," Minkler's mother, Jamie Shanklin, tells the Las Vegas Review-Journal. "My kid was shot in the chin, like they were shutting him up." Police say that after Minkler was shot, the other teens didn't call 911 or attempt to render aid—and Caruso, who recorded videos of the aftermath of the shooting, used money from the teen's wallet to buy new shoes. Both teens have been charged as adults. Caruso is charged with murder with a deadly weapon and robbery, while Harlan faces charges including being an accessory to murder after the fact.