NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A man has pleaded guilty to killing a teen in Louisiana more than five years ago.
News outlets reported that 23-year-old Brent Riggins pleaded guilty to manslaughter Tuesday in the 2013 shooting death of 18-year-old Jared Hester of Gretna.
The Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office said Riggins will be sentenced to 40 years in prison.
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Riggins had been scheduled to stand trial this week on a charge of second-degree murder.
Hester was found dead outside an apartment complex. Prosecutors say he had been shot 14 times.
A co-defendant, 23-year-old Aaron Thibodeaux, pleaded guilty last month to an accessory charge and faces up to five years in prison.
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