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Husband: Directors of documentary didn’t have any respect.

A husband says he didn’t give his consent to filmmakers to speak about his dead wife,

— Jim Worthy HUBER HEIGHTS stands at the front door of his Huber Heights home upset, with tears welling up in his eyes.

It’s been just over a year since his wife of 50 years, Mae, died — accidentally struck by a bullet from a gun he was cleaning in another room.

“I just about forgot about that,” Worthy said.

But a new HBO documentary called “Requiem for the Dead: American Spring 2014” has reopened those wounds for Worthy, and he’s not happy because he wasn’t contacted directly by HBO or the filmmakers.

Worthy — who still lives in his Rolling Glen Drive home where the incident took place last May 28 — is a subject of HBO’s documentary directed by Emmy-winning producers Shari Cookson and Nick Doob that premieres Monday night.

“Requiem for the Dead: American Spring 2014” draws

attention to the estimated 8,000 individuals who died from gunfire last spring.

The program details victims’ lives in the moments leading up to the shootings and shows how each death reverberates in the lives of others. The death may have been a result of homicide, accident or suicide.

The Huber Heights segment — titled “In the Other Room” and about five minutes long — tells the story of Wayne High School graduate Jerel Worthy and his grandmother, Mae, who was killed when a gun handled by her husband discharged in the bedroom.

The bullet passed through the wall and into the living room where Mae was sitting, striking her in the head and killing her.

“I’m dealing with this stuff day and night by myself,” Worthy said. “I’m trying to get beyond that. I know what happened here. Everybody knows what happened here. It was an accident. I don’t want to be up there with no murderers, just because of a gun.”

Instead of narration or interviews, the directors bring the victims to life through their own words and images with what was publicly available — social media posts, news reports, 911 calls and police investigations.

“It seemed cruel and invasive to go chasing people at the time of the accident or the killing,” Doob said. “It felt wrong to us.”

Cookson said Jerel’s social media posts about his grandmother allowed the directors to “get a sense of what she meant to the family.”

“What we discovered is social media is a time capsule,” Doob said. “It’s a diary of people’s lives, so you can move years back and get a feeling of what it was like to be in the moment then, even seconds before the tragedy.”

Cookson and Doob said they contacted Jerel during the film’s production to let him know of their project. Jim said he and Jerel exchanged emails a couple weeks ago and that he didn’t give his consent for the story. Attempts to reach Jerel were unsuccessful.

“They didn’t have any respect. They didn’t come to me,” Worthy said. “I don’t care what’s out there on the web. That’s my privacy right there. They’ve invaded that and stepped beyond the boundaries.”

Cookson said all of the families featured in the film were notified, and the directors have made themselves available to the families to talk.

“We really want to pay tribute to the people whose lives were lost,” Cookson said. “People that the rest of the country might not know otherwise.”

Jerel Worthy was drafted in the second round by the Green Bay Packers in 2012 and is now on the Kansas City Chiefs roster.