A Brookhaven man involved in a 2013 shooting at the corner of Dr. Martin L. King Jr. Drive and Monticello Street pleaded guilty and was sentenced Wednesday in Lincoln County Circuit Court. 

Kevin Barome Collins, 1303 North Center St., pleaded guilty to one count of manslaughter and one count of aggravated assault in connection to the death of Darion K. Reese on Oct. 13, 2013.

Collins, 47, was indicted April 3, 2014, on four charges: one count of murder, one count of conspiracy, one count of aggravated assault and one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.  The state offered to amend Collins’ charges to the one count of manslaughter and one count of aggravated assault while submitting the remaining two charges as nolle prosequi, or unwilling to pursue.

Collins was sentenced to 20 years in the state penitentiary for the manslaughter charge and 10 years for the aggravated assault charge, with eight years suspended and two to serve. The sentences for both charges are to be served consecutively.

Jones pleaded guilty Tuesday to manslaughter and conspiracy to commit manslaughter. Jones’s sentencing date is set for May 18.

That Sunday in 2013, Collins and David Earl Jones Jr., 30, 421 North Seventh St., were involved in a three-way shootout with 24-year-old Reese.

The shooting also resulted in the wounding of Kimberly Simon, 39, who was struck in the left shoulder by a stray bullet when she stopped her car at the intersection. Simon’s injuries resulted in the aggravated assault charges placed on both Collins and Jones.

Reese was transported to King’s Daughters Medical Center and pronounced dead there with one gunshot wound to the chest, according to Ricky Alford of the Lincoln County Coroner’s Office. Simon was admitted to KDMC and was later released from the hospital the next day.

Witnesses told police Jones and Collins fled the scene after the shooting. They later turned themselves in the next day, Oct. 14, 2013.