Juan Carlos Flores pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in the Sioux Falls stabbing of Alonzo Little.

The guilty plea is the conviction on the manslaughter count. It is not a sentence, and no outlet has reported a sentencing date. KELO's arrest coverage and Dakota News Network list Flores as 30 and Little as 39. Sioux Falls Live's plea story swaps those ages. Dakota News Network says the other counts were dropped. Sioux Falls Live describes a reversal of not-guilty pleas and does not say each remaining count was dismissed.

Sioux Falls Live reported that on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2026, Juan Carlos Flores pleaded guilty in the Minnehaha County Courthouse to one count of first-degree manslaughter. Dakota News Now reported the same plea, to one count of first-degree manslaughter, in the December 2024 stabbing of Alonzo Little. Dakota News Network reported Thursday that he is pleading guilty to manslaughter and could face life in prison, and that no sentencing date has been set. Sioux Falls Live and Dakota News Now also reported that sentencing has not been scheduled. A guilty plea on that count is the conviction on it. The prison term is the hearing that has not been set.

The ages are not stable. KELO's December 2024 arrest story identified a 30-year-old, Juan Carlos Flores, and said court documents described a 39-year-old victim. Lt. Aaron Nyberg named the victim as Alonzo Little, KELO reported. The Argus Leader's December 2024 account named Alonzo Jeremy Little, 39, and Flores, 30. Dakota News Now's plea story calls Little 39 and does not print an age for Flores. Dakota News Network calls Flores 30 and the man he stabbed 39. Sioux Falls Live's Oct. 21 story, and the caption on the jail photo it ran, call Flores 39 and Little 30. The plea stories do not explain the swap.

What he had been charged with is also told in more than one list. Sioux Falls Live reported the plea reversed not-guilty pleas entered in December 2024 to murder, burglary, robbery and assault charges, and that a trial set for March 2025 was continued until a jury trial had been delayed more than two years. Dakota News Now reported court documents showed original charges that included first- and second-degree manslaughter, burglary and robbery. Dakota News Network reported he had also faced murder, grand theft, possession of a stolen vehicle and obstructing an officer, and that those charges were dropped after the guilty plea. KELO's arrest-week story listed first-degree murder, grand theft, possession of a stolen vehicle and obstructing. The Argus Leader reported a later indictment adding first-degree murder, second-degree murder, first-degree manslaughter, first-degree burglary and first-degree robbery. Dakota News Network is the plea-week account that says the other counts were dropped. Sioux Falls Live does not say that in those words.

The killing, as the 2024 accounts and the plea stories describe it, was a stabbing at a Sioux Falls home. The Argus Leader reported officers were dispatched at 6:28 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024, to the 2500 block of North Aidan Avenue, and that Little was found with a laceration to the neck and pronounced dead at the scene. Sioux Falls Live reported a juvenile found him at a residence near Maple Street and Interstate 29, and that police described a domestic dispute with Flores, whom the paper calls his boyfriend. The juvenile is not named here. KELO reported court documents said the two were using drugs and then fought, and that Flores stabbed him in the throat. Dakota News Network reported the same drug fight, and that they had met on a dating app about a week earlier and had met in person a few times. KELO reported officers later found a large amount of blood and knives hidden on top of a kitchen cabinet, and that Flores was arrested after he took Little's car, crashed it, and was pulled over on the southbound ramp of Interstate 29 off Maple Street. Sioux Falls Live and Dakota News Now reported he was found in Little's vehicle. KELO reported he had cuts on his hands and was treated at a hospital before he was booked. Those are the police and court-document accounts from the week of the arrest, plus what the plea stories repeat. The manslaughter plea is what he entered Wednesday. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.