TAMPA, Fla. — A 15-year-old will face charges in the shooting death of another teen at a Tampa police officer's home. 

Bradley Hulett died on Dec. 13 when he was shot at a home in the Fishhawk community in south Hillsborough County.

He was 15. 

The Hillsborough County State Attorney's Office announced Friday that charges of manslaughter with a firearm, a first degree felony, will be filed. It is not clear if he will be tried as an adult, thus Spectrum Bay News 9 is not naming him per our crime guidelines.

The teen facing charges turned himself in to authorities Friday afternoon. His parents and an attorney accompanied him.

Hulett was shot in the head while wearing headphones and playing video games in one of his closest friend’s home, whose father is a Tampa police officer. 

There were four boys inside the home after school on Dec. 13.

According to the State Attorney's Office's investigation, the gun was inside a locked master bedroom. 

The boy who lives at the home used a paper clip to unlock the door, later not relocking it. When the boy and two others later went into the bedroom again, they noticed father’s gun, which was in a safety holster sitting on a small table. There was no magazine in the gun, although there was a single round in the chamber. 

The boy who lived at the house mistakenly believed the gun to be unloaded and took it back to the room where Hulett was playing video games.

That's where another friend, also mistakenly believing the gun to be unloaded, pulled the trigger, firing the single round and striking Hulett in the back of the head. The other three boys immediately called 911 and attempted to provide medical assistance to their friend.

State Attorneys Office officials also examined the second potential criminal issue concerns the homeowner’s storage of the gun. 

However, it concluded in this situation, there is no legal basis to charge the father for failing to safely store his gun.

State Attorney Andrew Warren met with Hulett’s family and informed them of this decision Friday afternoon. Brad Hulett, the father of the deceased, said he’s glad his son “will see some form of justice.”

In a statement, Warren said “there is no legal basis to charge the (Tampa Police Officer)  for failing to safely store his gun.”

Hulett said Friday that his family had contact with the shooter’s family after Bradley’s death, even letting them sit with them at his funeral. But he said that relationship broke down when the Hulett’s learned they wouldn’t cooperate with the investigation.

“That sent us into a tailspin,” he said. 

The gun in question was not a service weapon.