A man involved in a fatal Baton Rouge armed robbery was sentenced to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to criminal charges Wednesday, 19th Judicial District Court records show.
Dereck Torrise Hayes, 30, accepted the plea and prison sentence imposed by District Judge Eboni Johnson Rose, who ordered him to serve his stint behind bars with the possibility of parole.
Hayes was originally arrested and charged with second-degree murder in the Nov. 20, 2020 killing of 54-year-old Brian Dawson. During Wednesday’s hearing, he pleaded guilty to a lighter charge of conspiracy to commit armed robbery, escaping the specter of a mandatory life sentence that awaited him if he’d been convicted of the murder charge…