BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — One of the defendants charged in the 2017 shooting death of 5-year-old Kason Guyton has accepted a plea deal in exchange for a six-year prison term.
Jeremy King, 31, pleaded guilty Thursday to a charge of voluntary manslaughter. All other charges were dismissed.
King had faced life without parole if convicted of first-degree murder and the other counts that were filed against him.
King’s attorney, Andrew Flier of Encino-based Levine, Flier and Flier, declined to comment on whether his client will testify at co-defendant Jonathan Knight’s murder trial.
In custody since 2019, King has enough credits to be released after his sentencing hearing next month.
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King and Knight, 35, are accused in the Feb. 23, 2017, car-to-car shooting that killed Kason and wounded his 7-year-old brother as they headed home from Maya Cinemas.
It’s believed their mother’s boyfriend — the driver of the vehicle they were in and a documented member of the East Side Crips — was the intended target. He was uninjured.