Tyrus Dewayne Watson pulled up to the La Playa apartment complex last summer and emerged from his vehicle carrying his 2-year-old daughter, with a pistol in the front pocket of his shorts.

Prosecutors said Watson walked up a stairwell and burst into an apartment, where he shot Kedrick Glasper , the 31-year-old boyfriend of his ex-girlfriend. Watson carried out the fatal shooting while holding his daughter in his arms, according to court records.

On Tuesday morning, Watson stood before a Baton Rouge judge and accepted an offer from state prosecutors and pleaded guilty to manslaughter. In doing so, the 23-year-old Baton Rouge man avoided the second-degree murder charged he was indicted on and removed the possibility of a mandatory life sentence.

District Judge Gail Horne Ray can send Wa

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