On the evening of January 11, 1996, Murley and Perry were at the apartment drinking beer and watching the movie "Pulp Fiction." There is no evidence in the record that Perry had ever lived in the apartment. When Murley mentioned that Paul owned a gun similar to the one in the movie, Perry asked to see it. Murley retrieved the gun from Paul's bureau drawer and, believing it to be unloaded, pointed it at Perry's head. Perry jokingly said "boom" and the gun discharged. Perry, eighteen years old at the time, was killed. Murley, then twenty years old, does not recall having pulled the trigger. Paul was not in the apartment at the time of the shooting.