A teenager accidentally shot his 16-year-old friend dead while gloating over a touchdown in the Madden NFL video game Thursday night in Brooklyn, police sources said.
The victim, Denzel Nash of Bedford-Stuyvesant, was hit in the left temple as he and the alleged gunman, 15, played video games while their pal Luigi Fontin, 18, looked at his phone, sources said.
Fontin allegedly admitted to cops that they were all smoking weed inside a second-floor apartment on Miller Avenue in East New York around 9:35 p.m. when the shooting happened, the sources said.
After scoring the touchdown, the 15-year-old, whose name was withheld because of his age, took a loaded .32-caliber revolver from his waistband and waved it in front of the teen’s head, according to the sources.
The gun discharged once – fatally striking Nash in the head.
Panicking, the two teens then threw the gun inside a backpack and tossed it into a bathtub before fleeing the apartment, according to the sources.
Cops responded to a 911 call at the address and confronted Fontin and the alleged shooter – who was covered in his opal’s blood – outside the building.
“My friend was shot upstairs,” Fontin allegedly told the cops, before pointing the finger at his pal, saying: “He shot him.”
Nash was DOA at Brookdale Hospital.
The backpack and gun, which still had five live rounds in it, were recovered at the scene.
The 15-year-old was charged with second-degree manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon.