
Rochester Shooting Leads to Conviction on Threats Charge
Rochester, MN (KROC-AM News) - A second person has entered a guilty plea in connection with a drive-by shooting in Rochester last year.
27-year-old Torria Dilanna Sims and 26-year-old Joseph Wesley Simmons Junior were arrested in March after Rochester police were called to investigate multiple reports of a shooting. The incident was reported in the vicinity of 41st Street and East Frontage Road Northwest along Highway 52.
The criminal complaints filed against the man and woman stated that the responding officers found spent shell casings at the scene and spoke with the victim, who identified Sims as the person who fired a gun in her direction from the passenger seat of a vehicle driven by Simmons. No injuries were reported.
The court document says the victim told police the shooting occurred as she was leaving a party where Sims and Simmons were both also in attendance. She told investigators that there were tensions between them because she had a child with Simmons, who was dating Sims.
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On Friday, Sims went before an Olmsted County judge and entered a guilty plea to a terroristic threats charge. Under her plea agreement, charges of aiding and abetting drive-by shooting and aiding and abetting second-degree assault were dropped. She and Simmons are scheduled to be sentenced in late March.
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