Quincy man sentenced for armed robbery

by Richard Byrd
| May 5, 2017 4:00 AM

QUINCY — A Quincy man will be spending nine months in jail in connection with a late January armed robbery in Quincy.

Salvador Solorzano Torres, 20, of Quincy, pleaded guilty in Grant County Superior Court to second-degree robbery and second-degree malicious mischief. Following a joint recommendation between the prosecution and defense, Judge John Antosz sentenced Solorzano Torres to nine months in jail.

On Jan. 29, the Quincy Police Department received a report of a possible robbery in the 700 block of F Street Southeast. One of the two victims of the robbery claimed he met someone on Snapchat who was selling a cellphone. He said he and his friend agreed to purchase the phone, but they later changed their story and admitted they agreed to purchase marijuana from the subject, Solorzano Torres, according to court documents.

One of the victims said as they were waiting for Solorzano Torres a dark red Cadillac pulled up next to them and stopped. Solorzano Torres got out of the driver’s seat and approached the driver’s door of the victim’s vehicle and told the driver to get out and turn over his keys.

Solorzano Torres stole the man’s keys at gunpoint and made him get on the ground. As the victim was on the ground, Solorzano Torres stole the man’s wallet out of his back pocket. Two other identified males got out of the Cadillac and approached the passenger in the victim’s vehicle. The passenger went on to give the two assailants $500.

“(The victim) stated he saw one of the passengers had what appeared to be a long rifle. (The victim) stated one of the male subjects smashed the front windshield with a bat,” wrote a QPD officer. “(The victim) stated someone fired a shot and hit the back passenger window.”

A .22-caliber shell casing was found by police near the passenger side door of the victim’s vehicle, as well as a .22-caliber bullet inside of the vehicle. Solorzano Torres was on the run for over a month until he was arrested at a gas station in the 200 block of F Street Southeast.