BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) -- A man has pleaded guilty to negligent homicide and illegal use of a weapon in a 2021 shooting that left a Zachary father dead.

East Baton Rouge District Attorney Hillar Moore confirmed to Louisiana First News that Nicholas McQuirter, 21, has pleaded guilty to negligent homicide and illegal use of a weapon in the death of Dezmond Hamilton, 34. As part of his sentence, McQuirter will serve five years of supervised probation.

The case stems from a July 2021 incident in Zachary, when police responded to a home on Hayfield Drive. Police said McQuirter, who was 17, climbed through a second-story window. Hamilton's 14-year-old daughter invited him in. Hamilton confronted him, and the two exchanged gunfire. McQuirter was hospitalized, but Hamilton died from

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