TEXAS — On Saturday, Dwayne Moten and his friend Jacob Wheeler executed a plan that they thought would surely gain Moten custody of his 3-year-old son. But now, Moten is dead and Wheeler is in prison for his murder, but he’s innocent! Well, kinda.

Their plan went kinda like this…

Moten: “OK Jacob, you’re going to take this gun and shoot me with it.”

Wheeler: “Are you sure that’s a good idea?”

Moten: “It can’t fail. You’re not gonna kill me — just shoot me a little bit. Once in the right thigh and once in the left shoulder. I’m pretty sure those are two good spots to get shot.”

Wheeler: “And then what?”

Moten: “We frame my baby mama’s new boyfriend and say he shot me. Then she looks like she been doin’ some shady shit with her man. Then I get custody of Dwayne Jr.”

Wheeler: “You crazy but it just might work! Gimme that gun.”

Wheeler shot Moten just like he had asked him. Afterward, Moten casually drove himself to the hospital — but he didn’t make it. Like when Matthew Lillard got stabbed too many times by his friend in the movie Scream, Moten had been shot too much and felt woozy.

He pulled over and got out of his car and began screaming for help. A witness tried to help, but Moten collapsed and died soon after. What luck: There are arteries in thighs.

The shooter, Jacob Wheeler, was arrested and charged with murder and an unrelated aggravated robbery. The judge set his bail at some astronomical amount.

Wheeler was interviewed from jail today and he accepts responsibility for the death of Moten. “I want justice for his family,” he said, “but I don’t want the death penalty.”

I hate a lot of people enough to shoot them, but I don’t like anyone enough to shoot them. It takes a true friend to pull the trigger on you when you ask them to, and friends like that are hard to come by — probably because they’re all in jail by now.

Wheeler still wonders where he went wrong. If he could go back in time and change things, he would shoot Moten somewhere less fatal, like the chest or neck.

Sources: 1, 2