Death Report: Gavrilo Princip

Last night, Matt R aka “Gavrilo Princip” was betrayed and killed.

Orchestrated by “The Other Woman”, Matt’s roommate and one additional (former?) friend conspired to lure him away from the safety of his home.

On the evening of May 4, 2009, Matt’s roommate called to say that she’d left her keys and needed to be let into their house. This seemed innocent enough and so Matt politely agreed. This was quickly turned around when his roommate invited him to go grab a drink nearby first. Not yet suspicious about his looming demise, he accepted the invitation.

Shortly thereafter, Matt’s roommate contacted him again to ask if he was still coming. In retrospect, this might have tipped him off but alas he continued unaware towards his death.

He arrived at the nearby bar to find his roommate and two other people waiting. Knowing immediately that there were other players present he demanded that all guns be taken out and placed on the table before he’d join.

The more cautious player would have walked out before even getting that far, but not Matt. He continued either undeterred by or unaware of his peril.

His intent was to pick up the gun on the table, thinking it would afford him some modicum of safety but “The Other Woman” realized this and was upon their weapon too fast.

Matt had turned to flee and was moving for the door as “The Other Woman” opened fire from across the room.

At first he thought he had made it out dry, and consequently alive. After running a safe distance away, he stopped to check and discovered there were a few water marks on him. They were faint, maybe it was only a glancing shot, maybe they had faded during his flight, but they were marks nonetheless.

And so was ended the brief life of “Gavrilo Princip”, whose time in this game was too short to do justice to the name.

A roommate relationship ruined? With his trust betrayed, Matt never did end up getting those keys to his betrayer.