The lawyer for a 17-year-old Pennsylvania boy accused of taking a selfie next to a 16-year-old teen he had just fatally shot wants a judge to dismiss a first-degree murder charge.
Defense attorney Patrick Thomassey says Maxwell Morton, of Jeannette, didn't mean to kill his friend. The attorney says in a Westmoreland County court filing on Tuesday that the Feb. 4 shooting of Ryan Mangan was an accident.
Thomassey says the boys were horsing around with a loaded gun that was in Mangan's house. Morton was also 16.
Police say Morton was trying to take a picture of Mangan with the cellphone aimed down the barrel of the gun before pulling the trigger. Prosecutors say Morton told police he pulled the trigger then took the selfie showing Mangan shot in the face behind him.
