'Is the gun empty or loaded' joke ends in death
In a coffeehouse in Sultangazi, a man who took his friend's gun to play an is it empty or loaded joke pulled the trigger and shot his friend. While the 21-year-old youth lost his life, the suspect, who fled the scene, was caught and taken into custody by police teams.
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The incident occurred at 15:30 at a coffeehouse located on 2505th Street in the Cebeci neighborhood of Sultangazi.
According to allegations, while 4 friends were playing a game, a suspect named M.Y. took a gun from another friend's waistband as a joke.
Asking "Is the gun loaded or empty?" before pulling the trigger, M.Y. shot his friend Ali Yavrutürk (21). Seeing that the gun had fired, M.Y. fled the scene. Upon notification of the incident, police and medical teams were dispatched to the area. In the examination conducted by the teams, it was determined that Ali Yavrutürk had lost his life.
THEY HAD NERVOUS BREAKDOWNS
After a 2-and-a-half-hour crime scene investigation, Ali Yavrutürk's lifeless body was taken to the Forensic Medicine Institute morgue. Ali Yavrutürk's family and relatives, who arrived at the scene, suffered nervous breakdowns. The suspect, M.Y., was caught and taken into custody by police teams.
"WE HEARD THEY WERE FRIENDS"
Speaking about the incident, a citizen named Ömer Akbaba said, “The friends who were in the coffeehouse saw how it happened, I don't know. We heard that they were both friends. When we heard it happened at the coffeehouse we go to, we heard about it and came.”
A citizen named Sultan Sarıboğa said, “The person who shot fled after committing the act. As far as I know, they are both from the same hometown. That is all we know.”