( CNN ) -- A soldier trying to scare another soldier out of hiccups shot his comrade in the face , killing him , authorities said Tuesday . Both soldiers , joined by a third man , were drinking alcohol and watching football at the time of the Sunday night incident , authorities said . `` The victim had the hiccups . The suspect pulled out a gun to scare him in order to stop the hiccups , '' said spokesman Carroll Smith of the Killeen , Texas , Police Department . Pfc . Patrick Edward Myers , 27 , was charged on Tuesday with manslaughter , and Justice of the Peace Garland Potvin set his bond at $ 1 million , police said . Killed was Pfc . Isaac Lawrence Young , 22 , of Ash Grove , Missouri , a motor transport operator at the Army base , the military said . Young entered active duty in May 2011 and arrived at Fort Hood in October 2011 , the Army said . Myers is a soldier at the base , as was Young at the time of his death , said Fort Hood spokesman Chris Haug . Police responded to a shooting shortly after 10 p.m. Sunday and found a man shot in the face and two other men at the residence , Killeen police said . Myers allegedly `` produced a handgun and while handling it in an unsafe manner , discharged the handgun striking the victim in the face , '' police said . Young was pronounced dead during the ambulance transport to Skylark Field , where he had been scheduled for an airlift to a hospital , authorities said . Young received the National Defense Service Medal and Army Service Ribbon , the military said . Accused Fort Hood shooter hospitalized . Military leaders : We 're too fat to fight .
Two soldiers are drinking alcohol while watching a Sunday night football game . One soldier gets the hiccups ; the other uses a gun to try to cure him with a scare . The first one shoots his pistol into the ground, and then he takes off running away from the second guy who is still standing there holding a shotgun. Myers charged with manslaughter in death of Pfc . Isaac Lawrence Young , 22 .