A 25-year-old Manhattan man has pleaded no contest to killing a former Army combat medic and raping a female jogger who was training for a marathon.

WIBW-TV reports Justin Taylor entered the pleas Tuesday in Riley County District Court under an agreement with prosecutors.

Taylor pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter in the death of 31-year-old Kevin Cockrum, who was beaten with a heavy flashlight last Aug. 11 in Manhattan’s Aggieville district. Police said Cockrum had objected to comments about a female friend.

While Taylor awaited trial in Cockrum’s death, authorities tied him via DNA to the June 2010 rape of a 57-year-old woman attacked while jogging in Manhattan.

Taylor, a former Kansas State University student, will be sentenced in May — the same month he would have graduated.