WBRZ - Baton Rouge

NEW ORLEANS- A 23-year-old New Orleans man has pleaded guilty to manslaughter for gunning down a man in a wheelchair during a drive-by shooting in October 2010.

The Times-Picayune reports Derrick Allen was sentenced Wednesday to 15-year in prison and avoided a March trial on a charge of second-degree murder, which carries an automatic life sentence.

Prosecutors then dismissed the murder charge against one of his accused accomplices, 23-year-old Jazmun Tolbert, and ordered his release from Orleans Parish Prison.

Allen and Tolbert, along with 23-year-old Joseph Peters, were accused in the murder of Sedale Dorsey.

Peters was tried for murder last year, but a jury opted instead to find him guilty of manslaughter. Peters received the maximum sentence for that conviction, 40 years in prison.