(KNZA)--Guilty.

That was the plea entered Friday in a Buchanan County courtroom by a 28-year-old St. Joseph man charged in connection with the death of an elderly St. Joseph man during a carjacking in June.

Paul Belding entered the guilty plea to a charge of 2nd-degree murder.

Sentencing was set for November 18th.

Police say 77-year-old Richard Gray suffered a traumatic brain injury while trying to prevent Belding from taking his van June 13th from the parking lot of St. Joseph convenience store.  Gray died five days later at a local hospital.