Arraignment for Quincy man charged in TJ Maxx parking lot shooting pushed back one week

QUINCY — The arraignment for a Quincy man charged with four felonies in connection with a July shooting in the TJ Maxx parking lot at the Prairie Crossing Shopping Center has been pushed back a week.

Alan C. Pacheco, 21, appeared in Adams County Circuit Court Tuesday morning with attorney Ryan Schuenke before Judge Holly Henze. 

Schuenke asked Henze if the arraignment could be rescheduled because he and Pacheco need to review video footage.

“There was a significant amount of video footage evidence that we were waiting on,” he said. “The State’s Attorney’s Office has provided, I believe, most, if not all, of that to me at this point, and we’re going through it. I’ve watched most of it. I need to get it over to the jail so Mr. Pacheco can watch it as well.”

Schuenke said Pacheco also would like to take up a motion regarding his pre-trial release conditions. First Assistant State’s Attorney Todd Eyler did not object to Schuenke’s request. Henze rescheduled the arraignment for Aug. 21.

Officers from the Quincy Police Department, Adams County Sheriff’s Department and the Illinois State Police were dispatched at 2:28 p.m. July 6 to 6210 Broadway to a shooting incident in the parking lot in front of TJ Maxx. Terrence D. Horton, 22, was found on the ground with apparent gunshot wounds. Pacheco was taken into custody a short time later after returning to the scene.

Pacheco has been charged with:

• Two counts of aggravated discharge of a firearm, a Class 1 felony punishable for between five and 15 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections, for discharging a firearm at Horton and Islam D. Woodson; 
• One count of aggravated battery with a firearm, a Class X felony punishable for between six and 30 years in prison, for discharging a firearm and causing injury to Horton.
• One count of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, a Class 4 felony punishable for between one and three years in prison, for knowingly possessing a Smith and Wesson M&P Shield 9mm handgun when he was not on his land, his home or his fixed place of business.

Schuenke said during Pacheco’s first appearance in Adams County Circuit Court on July 9 that his client acted in self-defense as Horton and Woodson attacked him in his vehicle. Eyler said Pacheco put the community in danger with his actions by following one of the victims, who ran inside a nearby Petco store.