chennai the youth vijay who shot dead his friend mukesh a polytechnic student near kelambakkam on november 5 has told interrogators that they had argued over the latters refusal to give up studies and join a gang but claimed the weapon went off accidentally when he was spinning it with a finger in the triggerguard police saidpolice said vijay was part of a gang of rowdies based at perumattunallur near kelambakkam and was trying to recruit mujesh who used to frequent his house to make use of the wifi connection to play video games such as pubg police said vijay who was involved in two robbery casesin guduvancherry had joined the gang led by a man called selvam and had been assigned as a bodyguard for an aiadmk worker ravi of vengadamangalam vijay is a distant relative of ravis and he knew his sons anburaj and arulraj ravi had sought protection after a gang had hurled petrol bombs at his house last year he and his family escaped unhurt but his car was damagedselvam a resident of perumattunallur had given vijay the hand gun which locals said he used to flaunt and threaten friends and foes alike twirling it filmy style whenever mukesh visited vijay would press him to join the gang as selvam had promised to pay him a hefty amount police said that on november 5 they had another argument with mukesh insisting he would continue his studies vijay as usual did a border agent roll but the gun went off police quoted him as saying mukesh was rushed to hospital but he could not be saved vijay fled his home soon after the shooting and surrendered the next day before a magistrate court in chengalpet on november 8 the thalambur police took three days custody of vijay to interrogate him and retrieve the murder weapon they police seized the gun from the house of another friend of vijays in the city