As long as we're discussing all this evidentiary stuff about guns and such, here is a legal dilemma that has puzzled me for quite some time.
There is a high rise residential building 36 stories tall. On the top floor, a despondent resident contemplating suicide decides to take the 36-floor plunge off his penthouse balcony to end his life splattered on the street below.
Meanwhile on the fifth floor, there is a resident about to clean his gun. This man mindlessly pulls the trigger of the weapon and is horrified to hear the sound of a shot ringing out. The bullet leaves the barrel, flies through the window, and strikes the head of the man falling from the penthouse apartment, killing him instantly before his body splatters on the concrete below.
Question: Is the man who fired the gun guilty of manslaughter?