The record establishes the voluntariness of defendant's plea. Defendant expressly admitted all the elements of first-degree assault under a theory of depraved indifference to human life. He then acknowledged the truth of the account of the incident that he had given to the police. That statement described a gross misuse of a loaded firearm that would support, at least by inference (see People v McGowen,
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