BOULDER — A 39-year-old Longmont man, who faces an attempted murder charge after police said he came close to killing his ex-girlfriend during an impromptu game of “Russian Roulette,” is scheduled to enter a plea in the case Friday.
Garrett Odel Brierly, who’s being held in the Boulder County Jail on $50,000 bond, faces numerous charges in connection with the alleged “game” including attempted first-degree murder, menacing, third-degree assault, and reckless endangerment.
Brierly’s former girlfriend, Dallas Mason, called police to Brierly’s Longmont home around midnight on Oct. 27 to report that he had pointed a gun at her face, according to an arrest affidavit.
When officers arrived, Mason told them that Brierly had played Russian Roulette with her by pointing a revolver at her forehead and pulling the trigger and then pointing the gun near — but not directly at — his own head and pulling the trigger, according to police. The gun didn’t go off after the first two attempts.
“He did this four times, alternating between pointing the gun at her forehead and pointing it up in the sky next to his own head,” police reported. “She said the gun went off on the fourth try, when he was pointing the gun up in the sky next to his own head.”
Brierly’s public defender, Matt Connell, could not be reached for comment last week.
Read the rest of this report, including what Mason told the Camera in an interview, at .
