The 12-year-old accused of shooting and killing 15-year-old Anthony Ray made his first court appearance Wednesday and will be charged as a juvenile.

Kameron Jones appeared in juvenile court shackled in chains, his head down most of the time.

Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine says Jones will be charged with manslaughter and 15-year-old Tony Robinson will also be charged in juvenile court as an accessory.

"We looked at the background, the circumstances, this was something we looked at all of the evidence in the case, the background, we talked to the police officers and the investigators and concurred with them this was an appropriate case to be sent to juvenile court."

Kleine says the shooting happened in the home of Ray's foster mother at 35th and Bedford last Saturday. "The 12-year-old said I did this, I didn't mean to, I shot my friend."

"The 15-year-old (Robinson) and the 12-year-old (Jones) were at the other 15-year-old's (Ray) house. They knew him. They were acquainted with him. The foster mother was their aunt, I believe. They had a gun. There was gun play involved from the standpoint of a 12-year-old with a firearm that was loaded, pointing it in the direction of this 15-year-old and pulling the trigger. But he was unaware the bullet was in the cylinder that was located behind the hammer, so that the gun went off."

Robinson had shot the .32-caliber revolver in the air earlier. "They dropped the gun, ran out screaming, threw the gun away and then came in and told the police this is what happened," says Kleine.

Jones' mother and stepfather left court learning their son will be held at the youth detention center until he enters a plea November 18th.

The boy’s attorney says the next step is to make sure he gets help, which the juvenile system can offer him.

"They can educate him there, he'll get medical treatment, he'll get psychiatric treatment and they're going to give him structure, that's something he doesn't have now,” says James Martin Davis, who would like to see Jones go to Boys Town. He thinks that atmosphere would help Jones grow up in the right direction.

We don’t yet know where the gun came from. That's something Kleine says both he and Omaha Police are looking into. They do know Robinson had it first.