article_snippet.sent: Jordan Sharifi, 17,  confessed to giving a gun to friend Raymond Howell, who killed himself .
article_snippet.sent: A teenager who allegedly gave himself best friend a gun for protection from bullies has been arrested after the boy used the weapon to kill A teenager who allegedly gave his best friend a gun for protection from bullies.
article_snippet.sent: Jordan Sharifi, 17, was taken into custody on Friday by police in McKinney, Texas, who say the boy confessed to giving a gun and  
article_snippet.sent: Speaking to police, his life'
  Sharifi initially denied seeing a weapon but later admitted that his life'
  Sharifi had given the boy the gun and had tried to hide the gun when his life'
  Sharifi found the gun beneath Raymond's body.
article_snippet.sent: Sharifi, who once attended McKinney Boyd High School with Howell but is no longer enrolled there, allegedly confessed to police that he'd stolen the gun from the family he was staying with.
article_snippet.sent: Sharifi was charged with fabricating or tampering with evidence, theft of a firearm and making a firearm accessible to a child.
article_snippet.sent: Confessed: Police say Sharifi, pictured left, led Police to Howell's body before confessing he stole a gun from a family he was staying with and gave a gun, along with several rounds of ammunition, to Howell .
article_snippet.sent: On social media, Sharifi also indicated that the boy had left Sharifi a note before taking Sharifi life .
highlights_snippet.sent: Jordan Sharifi, 17, 'gave Raymond Howell, Jr., 14, a gun and ammunition to protect himself from bullies but Raymond used the gun to take Raymond life'
  Sharifi
highlights_snippet.sent: found Raymond friend's body in a rain culvert on Thursday morning 'and threw the gun in a nearby drainage tunnel'
  his life'
  Sharifi was arrested by McKinney, Texas police on Friday and charged with theft of a firearm and making a firearm accessible to a child .
  