A young man who joined his brother and another man in a robbery that turned deadly at the Desert Hills Premium Outlets in Cabazon was sentenced Friday to 11 years in state prison.

Elijah Ray Burt, 22, of Victorville last month admitted a charge of voluntary manslaughter under a plea agreement with the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office. In exchange for his admission, prosecutors dropped three related charges against Burt.

During a hearing at the Riverside Hall of Justice Friday, Superior Court Judge Jerry Yang certified the terms of the plea deal and imposed the sentence stipulated by the prosecution and defense.

Last week, following a nearly two-week trial, a Riverside jury convicted Burt’s co-defendant, 21-year-old Reginald Charles Trice, also of Victorville, of first-degree

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