A Michigan man agreed to a life-sentence Tuesday after pleading guilty to principal to second-degree murder in the 2006 stabbing death of a transient man in a wooded area near Port Allen, Louisiana.
Thirty-seven-year-old Daniel Garcia, of Lansing, Michigan, admitted to participating in the attack on Matthew Millican and a female companion of Millican's on February 8, 2006. He says he helped commit the murder, but wasn't actually the one who did the killing.
The charge of principal to second-degree murder carries a mandatory life sentence.
Garcia's plea deal comes six weeks after a West Baton Rouge Parish jury recommended a death sentence for his brother, 29-year-old Michael Garcia, also of Lansing, in the attack on the transient couple.