Editor’s Note: This article has been corrected from its original version.

MOULTRIE, Ga. — Four of the six teen-agers who entered guilty pleas in connection with a July 2015 slaying of a Norman Park man received sentence reductions Wednesday.

Adrian Lyran Robinson, Ty’Cameron La’Darius Hayes, I-Key Tumazs Pinkins, and Derrick Demond Phillips appeared on Wednesday in the Colquitt County Jail courtroom before Superior Court Judge Harry J. Altman II. Altman granted a sentence reduction for the latter three that nearly cut by half the amount of prison time they originally were ordered to serve — from 18 to 10 years.

Robinson’s sentence was reduced from 10 to seven years to serve. All still have significant time in prison before they become eligible for parole and probation time to serve after they are released from prison.

The four, along with Tykerius Raheem “Grump” Jones and Brandon Quanterious “Brad” Wynn, entered guilty pleas to lesser charges in connection with the July 5, 2015 shooting of John Hester Sr. outside his 353 Hwy. 256 residence just outside Norman Park.

All were teen-agers at the time Hester was fatally shot, as was Christian Glover, the seventh of the group, who was accused of actually firing the fatal shot.

The seven were accused of going to Hester’s son’s residence across the roadway to pull off a home invasion.

Hester heard a commotion out on the roadway that night and went out to investigate armed with a shotgun. He fired several shots, and as the robbers fled, one shot back. Hester was hit in the leg and died the next morning at Archbold Memorial Hospital in Thomasville.

A jury found Glover not guilty on murder charges in September, but convicted him on one count each of burglary and criminal attempt to commit home invasion. Those are the same charges to which Jones, Hayes, Phillips, Pinkins and Wynn entered guilty pleas in the case.

The burglary charges stemmed from an incident earlier in the day when six of the seven — all but Robinson — allegedly broke into a residence in the city of Norman Park and stole a number of guns. Co-defendants testified that Glover fired the shot from one of the stolen guns. Investigators recovered a number of the guns but never located the weapon identified as the one used in the shooting.

After the trial in September, Altman sentenced Hayes, Phillips, Pinkins and Wynn to 18-year prison terms, with four years to be served on probation. Robinson, who pleaded to criminal attempt to commit home invasion, had been sentenced to 10 years to serve. He did not take part in the burglary during the day of July 5.

Specifically on Wednesday, Altman altered the sentences originally imposed that called for Hayes, Pinkins and Phillips to serve eight years on the burglary count and 10 years consecutive, or in addition to, that sentence — for a total of 18 — to concurrent sentences. That means they will serve the sentences at the same time instead of back to back.

In practical terms, the reduction in sentences means that each now will serve from 40 to 102 months less than they would under the original ones, according to District Attorney Brad Shealy. How much less time they actually spend behind bars depends on actions taken by the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles, which decides inmates’ release dates on an individual-case basis.

Shealy said in an email response that he made no recommendation on the request to reduce jail time in the case.

“I (did) inform the court that they agreed to cooperate at trial,” he said. “There was never any offer of probation and/or first-offender as some of the family members mentioned at the original sentencing last year.”