A 19-year-old has been criminally charged in a Sunday-night shooting that killed one of his closest friends.

Fairfield police announced a manslaughter charge against Xavier Thompson. He is charged in the death of 19-year-old Ladarius De’Juan Whiteside.

The shooting happened at 11:54 p.m. Sunday in the 6500 block of Forest Drive. Chief Deputy Coroner Bill Yates said information from police was that he was inside the home visiting with friends where there were guns. A gun was discharged, and the round struck Whiteside. He was pronounced dead at the home at 12:18 a.m. Monday.

Fairfield Police Chief Nick Dyer said the group was playing with the guns when Thompson accidentally shot Whiteside in the head. There were multiple people in the home at the time.

The Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office issued the manslaughter warrant against Thompson Monday afternoon. According to Alabama law, a person commits the crime of manslaughter if he or she “recklessly causes the death of another person” or “under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to human life, he or she recklessly engages in conduct which creates a grave risk of death and thereby causes the death except that he caused the death due to a sudden heat of passion caused by provocation and before a reasonable time for the passion to cool and for reason to reassert itself.”

Manslaughter is a Class B felony. Thompson was booked into the Jefferson County Jail at 5 p.m. with bond set at $30,000.