Rene Edward Barrios could get up to 21 years.

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A man accused of killing a newborn because the infant was interrupting his video game pleaded guilty to man-slaughter Thursday morning.

Rene Edward Barrios, 26, will be sentenced to somewhere between 10.5 and 21 years in prison next month by Pima County Superior Court Judge Richard Fields.

Barrios was living with the mother of 18-day-old Jaden Encinas on Oct. 26, 2007, when she left their apartment to run errands. She told police the baby was sleeping on their bed when she left, according to court documents.

Prosecutors allege that when the baby started to cry, Barrios paused his "assault-like" video game, went into the bedroom, shook the newborn and hit him in the head.

"Defendant's goal was to silence Jaden. He wanted the infant to stop crying so he could play his game. The impact was massive and global," Deputy Pima County Attorney Kristen Kelly wrote in court documents.

Barrios left the baby comatose on the bed and spent the next five to 10 minutes finishing his game, Kelly wrote.

When Barrios went back into the bedroom, the baby was blue and he called 911, Kelly wrote.

At the time of Barrios' arrest, Tucson police said the newborn wasn't breathing when firefighters arrived at the apartment in the 5500 block of East 26th Street, near East 22nd Street and South Craycroft Road.

The baby was pronounced dead at a hospital.

The infant had been crying for days, and Barrios became frustrated, his lawyer, Assistant Pima County Public Defender Darlene Edminson-O'Brien, told the judge on Wednesday.

Although he knew he should not shake the baby, he did, Edminson-O'Brien said. The infant suffered retinal hemorrhages and brain injuries as a result, Edminson-O'Brien said.

Court documents indicate that Edminson-O'Brien had hoped to challenge the infant's cause of death if the case went to trial. She also had wanted to suggest that the baby's mother caused his death.

The mother lost a 5-month-old boy two years before Jaden died, according to court documents.

The two of them had been sleeping together in a bed.

An autopsy showed the baby died of sudden infant death syndrome or of asphyxia.

Edminson-O'Brien said in court documents that the first baby's death was relevant to Barrios' defense.

Members of the Encinas and Barrios families exchanged words as Barrios was taken out of the courtroom crying and in handcuffs. He will be sentenced Sept. 30.