The court properly declined to submit manslaughter in the second degree to the jury as a lesser included offense of depraved indifference murder. There was no reasonable view of the evidence, even when viewed most favorably to defendant, that defendant was merely reckless but did not evince a depraved indifference to human life and create a grave risk of death to bystanders when he fired his gun on a crowded street corner (see, People v Reese,
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