A man who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in connection with a 2015 fatal Baton Rouge shooting was sentenced to 15 years in prison recently.

The plea deal came after video recordings of police interviews with four eyewitnesses to the shooting were lost, according to court records.

Jaime Rivera, a 36-year-old El Salvadorian native, was arrested in 2023 and charged with second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder. According to a Baton Rouge Police Department report, he shot and killed Eduardo Olivas, 33, during an argument outside his North Sherwood Forest duplex in the 1200 block of Cristy Drive the evening of Oct. 10, 2015.

Two of the bullets grazed Rivera’s roommate, who was 36 at the time, and he had to be hospitalized with non-life-threatening wounds, police said.

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