ALLENTOWN, Pa.—An eastern Pennsylvania man has pleaded guilty in the shooting death of a nightclub bouncer who had kicked him out of a club hours earlier.

The (Allentown) Morning Call ( http://bit.ly/SrcL3i) says 35-year-old Pedro Alicea-Perez of Allentown hung his head Friday in Lehigh County Court as he entered the plea to a third-degree murder charge.

Alicea-Perez had been scheduled to go on trial Monday on a first-degree murder charge in the Jan. 29 slaying of 29-year-old Andy Hernandez Rojas.

Prosecutors said Rojas had kicked the defendant out of Tu Casa Night Club, and the victim was later ambushed outside an after-hours club.

Alicea-Perez, who will be sentenced in November, also pleaded guilty to receiving stolen property and a weapons charge.

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Information from: The Morning Call, http://www.mcall.com