A lawyer for a soccer player charged in the one-punch killing of a referee says his client has agreed to a plea deal in which he would serve 8-15 years in prison.

A Detroit-area soccer player accused of killing a referee with a punch faces a key hearing on a second-degree murder charge.

A man knocked a referee at a Detroit-area soccer match unconscious with a punch to the head, then ran to a car before "peeling out," a witness to the attack says on a 911 call released Wednesday.