Luke R. Malcolm charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of Brady Lowery

Jackson County prosecutors charged Luke R. Malcolm with first-degree involuntary manslaughter in the death of Brady Lowery.

Malcolm, 23, told police that he accidentally shot Lowery, 23, at 1312 Southeast Austin in Oak Grove on January 22.

Court records say police found Malcolm on his knees, crying over Lowery’s body.

“It was an accident,” Malcolm told police. “I was putting my gun away. I did not mean to shoot him.”

Court records say that Malcolm, Lowery and others were smoking marijuana and hanging out in a bedroom at the home. Malcolm had hidden his gun under the mattress of the bed to keep it away from children in the home. Malcolm told police that he grabbed the gun from under a mattress and went to put it in his back pocket, swung around and the gun went off, hitting Lowery.

Then there are witness accounts, which tell a different story.