A juvenile has been charged in the fatal shooting of a Birmingham teen.

Reginald Pope, a 17-year-old rising senior and football player at Woodlawn High School, died Friday while he and friends were gathered inside a Gate City apartment.

Birmingham police on Tuesday announced a reckless manslaughter warrant against the juvenile suspect. His name is not being released because of his age.

The suspect was taken into custody earlier Tuesday by the police department’s Crime Reduction Team.

The shooting happened about 8:30 a.m. Friday in the 7500 block of 67th Courtway South.

Officer De’Rell Freeman said police responded to the apartment on a report of a person shot. Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service pronounced the victim dead inside the apartment.

Freeman said multiple people were in the apartment when a shot was fired.

The subsequent investigation showed, authorities said, that the suspect took Pope’s gun from him and took out the clip. Not realizing there was still a bullet in the chamber, he pointed it Pope and it fired.

In Alabama, reckless manslaughter happens when a person unintentionally causes the death of another through reckless conduct. It is a Class B felony with a punishment range of two to 20 years in prison.

Pope was about to begin his senior year at Woodlawn High School.

“His light, laughter, and legacy will forever be a part of the Woodlawn family,” the school posted on social media. “We stand with his family in love, strength, and prayer.”

Pope is Birmingham’s 46th homicide this year. In all of Jefferson County, there have been 71 homicides including the 46 in Birmingham.