Man says no contest in crimes linked to Topeka girl's death
July 26, 2019
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Topeka man has pleaded no contest to crimes linked to the drive-by shooting death of a 5-year-old girl.
Twenty-two-year-old Jessie Dean Deshawn Hughes pleaded Thursday in the July 2015 death of Lily Coats-Nichols. Shawnee County District Attorney Mike Kagay said Hughes pleaded to involuntary manslaughter, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and criminal discharge of a firearm at an occupied vehicle.
Hughes was originally charged with first-degree murder.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the plea deal requires Hughes to spend 25 years in prison.
Kagay said the girl's...
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