Plea Bargain Gives Tulsa Man Reduced Charge In 2017 Homicide Case

<p>A Tulsa man is pleading guilty to a reduced charge of first-degree manslaughter in relation to a 2017 homicide case.&nbsp;</p>

Friday, January 5th 2018, 5:28 pm

By: News On 6


There are new developments in a deadly stabbing.

6/17/2017 Man Arrested In Connection With Tulsa's 39th Murder Of 2017

Derrick Mathes pleaded guilty Friday as part of a plea bargain.

His charge was reduced from first-degree murder to first-degree manslaughter.

Police say Mathes killed Barry Hotzler during a fight on the Katy Trail.

Mathes will spend the next 13 years in prison.

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