One of the two men accused of killing an elderly Baton Rouge couple in 2015 has accepted a plea deal.
Ernesto Alonso and Frank Garcia were charged with kidnapping and first-degree murder for the 2015 deaths of Denis and Suzanne Duplantier.
In a plea agreement, Garcia has pleaded guilty to two counts of manslaughter.
The terms of the plea agreement are still being discussed. Garcia has been sentenced to 30 years in prison according to officials.
Investigators found the bodies of the Duplantier couple bound and beaten inside their truck at a gas station in Hammond on Oct. 19, 2015.
The couple’s home on Highland Road had been broken into the night before and officials say a large amount of money was missing out of the safe.
Alonso and Garcia were arrested days later in Florida.
