KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WOOD) — A man has been sentenced to a “violent armed robbery and assault” that took place in August 2022, Kalamazoo police say.

On Monday, the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety said Juan Alvarado-Lopez was sentenced to 17 to 40 years in prison with two additional years for felony firearm charges, which will run consecutively. He previously pleaded guilty to 14 felonies, including armed robbery and assault with intent to murder.

“This sentencing highlights the seriousness of the crime and underscores the unacceptable violence our officers and community members face,” Danielle Guilds, Criminal Investigation Division Captain, said in a release. “This case serves as a sobering reminder of the risks our Public Safety Officers take every day to keep our city safe.”

The robbery and assault happened on Aug. 13, 2022, at Tienda Guatemalteca on S Burdick Street near E Alcott Street.

Court documents say Alvarado-Lopez came into the store dressed in dark clothes and wearing a mask. He pointed a long gun at the owner and a customer and demanded the customer’s wallet. The customer held it out but he didn’t take it.

The customer then started running away, at which point Alvarado-Lopez fired a shot at him, the court document says. It went through the front glass door, and the customer wasn’t hit. The shop owner locked himself in an office. Authorities say Alvarado-Lopez fired several shots at the office door before taking off. The owner wasn’t hit, either.

The Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety says an officer soon spotted him driving on S. Burdick near Pratt Road, less than two miles from the store. The court documents say the officer turned on his lights and siren and followed until Alvarado-Lopez’s car crashed into the sign for the entrance of Candlewyck Apartments.

Alvarado-Lopez started to run away. When the officer got close, police said, Alvarado-Lopez fired at his cruiser with the rifle. The officer was not shot but court documents say he was hit with shrapnel from bullets hitting the cruiser. The officer got out of his car, told Alvarado-Lopez to stop and he fired again, the court document says. Again, the officer was not shot.

The court document says Alvarado-Lopez took off, ditching his rifle, a handgun and some of his clothes before police lost him.

Investigators say they soon found out who the abandoned guns were registered to. When they went to the owner, he said he had given the guns to another man. They found the second man, who said he had given the guns to Alvarado-Lopez.

Alvarado-Lopez was later arrested and his Kalamazoo Township home was searched. The court document says that when questioned, he admitted to investigators that he was the man who tried to rob the store and shot at the owner, customer and officer. He also told them the vehicle was stolen.

Police say a friend told them he picked up Alvarado-Lopez not far from where the car crashed on the day of the attempted robbery and shooting. The court document says surveillance video and fingerprints confirmed that.