ALBANY — Family members of an Albany man shot to death during an April 2007 fight say they’re not satisfied with a plea agreement reached in the case.

Tavarious West, 23, sits ready to spend the next 10 years in a state prison for killing Demetrious Vicks during a fight near Mulberry Avenue last April, but Vicks’ family says that simply isn’t enough punishment.

“So basically what they’re telling us is that Demetrious’ life was only worth 10 years?” Vicks’ aunt Se’Quoyah Vicks said. “If Demetrius doesn’t get to come back to his family, why should he get to be back with his?”

One day before West was scheduled to go on trial for Vicks’ death, attorneys in the case reached a deal allowing West to avoid a potential life sentence on a murder charge if he would agree to plead guilty to voluntary manslaughter.

For that plea, Judge Loring Gray sentenced West to serve 10 years in a state prison and 10 years on probation.

Even with the abbreviated sentence spelled out in the deal, West’s attorney is seeking to reduce the sentence at a June 2 mitigation hearing.

According to Vicks’ aunt, family members never agreed to the plea deal and were caught off guard when prosecutors announced it.

“We were led to believe for a year that he would be convicted of murder,” Se’Quoyah Vicks said. “We told them that we didn’t accept a plea bargain.”

A spokesperson for the prosecution told The Albany Herald Tuesday that West and Vicks had agreed to fight in a field near Mulberry Avenue, in a fracas that involved nearly 30 people.

During the fight, West was struck in the head with a beer bottle, prompting him to pull a gun and shoot in Vicks’ direction, striking him in the chest, reports said.