MANHATTAN (AP) – A 20-year-old Manhattan man is going to prison for 24 years for last year’s shooting death of a father of five.

WIBW-TV reports Michael Blake Layne was sentenced Thursday in Riley County District Court. Prosecutors agreed to the sentence when Layne pleaded no contest last month to reduced charges of second-degree murder, robbery and kidnapping.

Layne admitted shooting 31-year-old Steven Freel and dumping his body along a dirt road in December 2011. Layne claimed self-defense, but prosecutors said he feared that Freel would talk to authorities about robberies the two had committed together.

Another man, 42-year-old Domingo Soto, was sentenced earlier this week to life in prison for aiding and abetting in Freel’s killing. Prosecutors described Soto as Layne’s boss and said he provided the gun used in the murder.