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Teen boy allegedly admitted to shooting his stepbrother, but said he thought the shotgun wasn’t loaded

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A 15-year-old boy is facing a manslaughter charge in connection to his stepbrother's death — a shooting that initially was reported as accidental.

The boy at first told police that his stepbrother, Jerrad Jacobsen, had accidentally shot himself with a shotgun at they sat in Jacobsen’s bedroom on March 18 in Kearns.

But a medical examiner later found that the shot that killed Jacobsen had been fired into the top left side of his head at a downward angle, according to a juvenile court petition released Thursday.

When pressed by police again, the stepbrother allegedly admitted that he was the one who had grabbed the gun, pointed it at Jacobsen and pulled the trigger.