A Queens inmate who had insisted that he was innocent of a 1993 murder was sentenced to 5 to 15 years for the lesser charge of second-degree manslaughter Monday as part of a plea deal with the Queens District Attorney’s Office.

Anthony Nwobi, a Nigerian immigrant, was found guilty in 1993 of fatally shooting his friend, Justin Eze, during a fight over a botched business deal at the home of a man named Gregory Reece. Nwobi has served 21 years of a 25-year-to-life sentence.