WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Wichita man has been sentenced to three years and two months in prison for fatally shooting a co-worker.

The Wichita Eagle reports that 22-year-old Jacob Pulliam was sentenced Tuesday in Sedgwick County for killing 19-year-old Mekko Stumblingbear in April. Pulliam had pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter last month. In exchange, prosecutors agreed to not file charges against him in an unrelated methamphetamine possession and drug distribution case from 2015.

Pulliam had requested probation, saying the shooting was an accident. He says he had pointed a gun at Stumblingbear and fired, not knowing it was loaded while some men played with Airsoft rifles before work. Initially he told police Stumblingbear shot himself.

But District Judge Ben Burgess characterized the shooting as a “reckless beyond reckless act.”