HUTCHINSON, Kan. — A preliminary hearing for a 34-year-old man jailed early New Year’s Day after he allegedly stabbed a man to death waived his preliminary hearing Monday afternoon and entered a plea to a lesser charge.

Kevin Wayne Ginn Jr. allegedly stabbed 24-year-old Deshamus Diron Luckey during a large disturbance just after 2 a.m. in the area of 8th & Madison.

He was originally charged with voluntary manslaughter, but in March, the state amended the complaint to murder in the second degree. They added two other counts of voluntary manslaughter and aggravated battery.

Ginn entered a plea to one count of involuntary manslaughter with the other charges dropped by the state. As part of the agreement, he cannot seek any type of departure at sentencing and both sides will recommend 90 months or seven years and six months in prison

The case started at the Grand Slam Sports Bar where Ginn was struck in the head with his fist by the victim of the stabbing. Luckey then left that bar and went to another. Ginn then showed up at Vic’s bar upset and tried to pick a fight with Luckey, but it was broken up before anything happened. The victim then left that bar and went to the party in the 300 block of West 8th.

That’s when the suspect showed up and got into an altercation with another man, Mark Morgan, who was apparently cut with the knife as he tried to keep the two apart. Luckey was stabbed during that altercation in his upper chest just below his neck line and collapsed on a porch and later died from his wound at Hutchinson Regional Medical Center.

Ginn was also taken to the hospital to be treated for injuries, then taken to jail.

Ginn is no stranger to the law with numerous other convictions out of Sedgwick, Johnson, Labette and Wyandotte counties. Although the two sides will recommend the seven years, six months, Judge Tim Chambers could sentence him to over 11 years in prison.

Sentencing will be on July 22 at 10:30 a.m.