Jorge Izarraraz, 23 of Fillmore, who was charged with murder in connection with a fatal stabbing in Fillmore in 2015 has been allowed by prosecutors to plead guilty to the lessor charge of voluntary manslaughter.

Izarraraz killed 24-year-old Edgar Torres of Fillmore during an involved in an altercation on November 2, 2015 in the area of Third and B Streets.

Torres died later at the hospital with a stab wound. Izarraraz had been facing a murder charge but the DA’s office allowed him to plead guilty to voluntary manslaughter instead.

Izarraraz remains in jail pending sentencing on August 1, 2017.