SHOOTING IN GREENWOOD 10-18-2010

A GUN ACCIDENTALLY GOES OFF KILLING A GREENWOOD MAN AND LANDING HIS FRIEND BEHIND BARS ON INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER CHARGES. GREENWOOD POLICE CHIEF HENRY PURNELL SAID ANTRON MAGEE, 22, DIED FROM A SINGLE GUNSHOT WOUND TO THE LOWER BACK AROUND 11 P.M. SUNDAY NIGHT. MAGEE WAS DRIVING A CAR WITH THREE MALE PASSENGERS WHEN A HANDGUN WENT OFF IN THE BACK SEAT ON THE DRIVER'S SIDE. "HE WAS LOADING A .9 MM PISTOL AND DURING THAT TIME THE GUN JAMMED AND HE PULLED THE TRIGGER AND IT WENT OFF," SAID CHIEF PURNELL. TYSHAUN LUCAS, 17, WHO WAS HOLDING THE GUN RUSHED MAGEE TO GREENWOOD LEFLORE HOSPITAL WHERE HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD MINUTES AFTER ARRIVING. THE OTHER TWO MEN THAT WERE IN THE CAR TRIED TO DITCH THE GUN NEAR THE HOSPITAL, BUT POLICE WERE ABLE TO RECOVER IT. PURNELL SAYS THE LUCAS HAS BEEN CHARGED AS AN ADULT WITH INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER AND THE OTHER TWO MEN WILL ALSO FACE CHARGES.