A man accused of shooting into the wrong apartment and killing a 9-year-old girl in Old East Dallas took a plea deal for a sentence of five years in prison on Monday, according to NBC 5.
Tyrese Simmons, 24, agreed to a five-year prison sentence for manslaughter and two years for jumping bail.
The charge comes after the alleged gunman’s murder case ended in a mistrial due to faulty witness testimony on Thursday, according to the Dallas Morning News.
Simmons is charged with murder in connection with the killing of Bradoniya Bennett in 2019.
According to police, Simmons was allegedly feuding with another rapper and mistakenly fired five bullets into an apartment at the 3500 block of Munger Avenue on Aug. 14, 2019. The apartment he believed to be the rapper’s home, instead it was Bennett, an elementary school student.
Simmons surrendered to police the following day and was released on bond months later.
The trial was scheduled to start last summer, but days before he was scheduled to stand before a judge, Simmons fled Texas and was caught in Oklahoma and put in jail in August 2023, according to records.
Davonte Benton was convicted of murder in 2022 and sentenced to 45 years in prison in relation to the shooting. Surveillance footage showed Benton running through the complex with Simmons, according to the Morning News.
