A 72-year-old man pleaded no contest Friday to voluntary manslaughter involving a woman killed in South Los Angeles and discovered dead in the Central Valley.

Rodney O’Keith — who admitted an allegation that he personally used a firearm in the commission of the crime — was immediately sentenced to 15 years in state prison in connection with Patrice Armstrong’s shooting death, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.

Tulare police said officers found a vehicle on fire after responding Feb. 15, 2024, to calls of a possible collision and discovered the woman dead in the trunk of the vehicle after the fire was put out.

Tulare police said detectives learned that O’Keith and the 58-year-old victim had been in a romantic relationship.

Tulare police detectives served a s

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