Man pleads guilty in five-year-old’s death

The Rock County District Attorney’s Office gets a guilty plea in a murder case involving a five-year-old victim in Beloit. 26-year-old Sergio Ortiz pleaded guilty Thursday morning, before Rock County Judge Michael Haakenson, to a lesser charge of First Degree Reckless Homicide.  Ortiz had been accused with a group of other young men to being Party to the Crime of First Degree Intentional Homicide a drive-by shooting death in January of 2015. Police say they suspected the group’s real target had been the boy’s father. Three other defendants still face charges in the case, but prosecutors say they have been cooperating.