MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A man has been charged with reckless homicide after police say he “accidentally” killed his wife’s friend while playing with a loaded gun.

On July 6, officers responded to a shooting in the 4000 block of W. Gadwell Drive.

When they arrived, they found an unresponsive woman suffering from a gunshot wound.

The Memphis Fire Department arrived and took her to Regional One Medical Center where she was pronounced deceased.

A witness who was on the scene told officers the victim’s name and that her husband Adrian Martinez, 29, picked the two women up from work.

She said that when they arrived at the victim’s residence, she heard her husband call out to the victim and a loud bang. When she looked back, her friend was bleeding from her neck.

The witness said that she knew that Martinez thought the gun was empty.

When he spoke with investigators, he told them that he’d picked up his wife and the victim from work to give them a ride home.

He said when they got there, he cocked his gun, said the victim’s name and pointed it at her. That’s when the gun went off.

WREG spoke with two female neighbors of the victim who agreed that this tragedy could have easily been prevented.

“You’re old enough to not play with it,” a female neighbor said. “You know better.”

“Whether you was playing or whatever the situation was, it should’ve never been a gun out involved anyway,” another female neighbor said.

He told the investigators that he was playing and didn’t think it was loaded. As soon as he realized it was, he said he dropped the magazine and called 911, but because of the language barrier, they couldn’t understand him.

Martinez is scheduled to appear in court on July 8.

People living in the neighborhood say this is just another reason to always practice gun safety.

“It’s a lot of violence going on as far as guns,” a neighbor said. “Put these guns up.”