(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – A Yuba City family is seeking to have the current murder charge against a 16-year-old reduced, in the shooting death of his 15-year-old brother at a residence on Gray Avenue last week.

The family, requesting the brother’s last names not be used, told CBS-13 in Sacramento at a vigil, identified the shooter as 16-year-old Cody and the victim as 15-year-old Davey.

Their grandfather, Randal Johnston, told the TV station “they were best friends. There was no animosity, no fighting. It was just a bad accident.” A great uncle, Ian Heard, told the reporter “the 2nd degree murder charge is completely bogus.”