Last Thursday, Trevin Hayes-Smith of Coffeyville pleaded no contest to charges of involuntary manslaughter and aggravated endangerment of a child in the alleged accidental shooting death of Nasha Gregory, age 15, of Chanute while at a Coffeyville home on March 13th.

Cole Hoffmeister, who serves as the defendant’s court-appointed attorney, said his client’s careless decisions in the Coffeyville home resulted in the death of Gregory. According to the statement of facts read at Thursday’s hearing, Gregory and several other teens were at a party and Hayes-Smith was displaying a gun and twirled the gun on his finger. While twirling the gun it accidentally discharged and the bullet struck Gregory in the neck where she was sitting in an adjacent room. Hoffmeister told Judge Jeffery Geitter that Hayes-Smith never intentionally aimed the gun at Gregory.

Because Hayes-Smith complied fully with the Montgomery County Attorney’s Office in the investigation of the fatal shooting, his prison sentences, to be issued from his two no-contest pleas, will run concurrently. Hayes-Smith's sentencing is set for July 1.