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Man sentenced to 5 to 6 years for bar shooting

YOUNGSTOWN — Allen G. Torres, 29, was sentenced to 5 to 6 years in prison Wednesday on felonious assault with a gun specification, being a felon in possession of a firearm and illegal possession of a firearm in a liquor permit premises.

He pleaded no contest in August to those charges before Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge Anthony D’Apolito.

His sentence will run at the same time as a sentence of 46 months in federal prison in a March 19, 2024, incident that resulted in him pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition Nov. 11, 2024.

Torres’ federal indictment stated that he possessed a firearm and ammunition, despite having a felony burglary conviction in 2016 in Mahoning County, a felony burglary conviction in 2018 in Mahoning County and a felony escape conviction in 2022 in Mahoning County.

The felonious assault and other convictions Wednesday relate to a call to Slick’s Bar & Grill, 2139 Hubbard Road on the East Side, which is near the entrance to the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center.

In that Jan. 1, 2024, crime, Youngstown police found the victim of a shooting on the floor, and the victim identified Torres as his assailant, said Mahoning County Assistant Prosecutor Katherine Jones.

Torres was observed in the bar on security video, and a (bullet) magazine could be seen protruding from his jacket pocket,” Jones told D’Apolito at Torres’ plea hearing.

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