SOMERVILLE, N.J. (AP) Jurors will hear two accounts of how a limousine driver was killed in Jayson Williams' bedroom when opening statements are made in the former NBA All-Star's manslaughter trial.

Prosecutors maintain that while Williams did not intend to kill Costas ``Gus'' Christofi, he acted with reckless indifference when he took a shotgun from a cabinet in the bedroom and opened it and closed it in one motion. It fired and hit Christofi.

Williams, who has been free on bail, and his defense team have portrayed the shooting at the 40-room mansion as an accident. The defense has indicated it will attempt to show Williams was in shock.

Prosecutors said that immediately after the shooting, Williams wiped the gun and tried to put the victim's hand or fingerprints on it. He then removed his clothing, jumped into a pool downstairs and put on new clothes. He told guests they must agree the shooting was a suicide and tell police they all had been downstairs, the documents said.

The shooting happened in the early hours of Feb. 14, 2002. Christofi, 55, had driven Williams' friends from a Harlem Globetrotters show in Bethlehem, Pa., to a restaurant in Franklin Township, then to Williams' 65-acre estate in Alexandria Township.

Williams, 35, faces seven charges, including aggravated manslaughter and witness tampering, that could carry up to 55 years in prison.

Openings are expected to begin Tuesday, following the selection of 12 jurors and four alternates from a pool of about 55.

State troopers who went to Williams' estate after the shooting were to be the first witnesses, Assistant Hunterdon County Prosecutor Steven C. Lember told the judge.

Williams retired from the New Jersey Nets in 2000 after a decade in the NBA, unable to overcome a broken leg. Williams was suspended from his job as an NBA analyst for NBC after the shooting.

In January 2003, Williams paid Christofi's family a reported $2.75 million to settle their wrongful-death lawsuit.