Homicide defendant gets 36 years for robberies

A Clovis teen was sentenced to 36 years for robbery charges connected to the homicide of a Clovis man, according to a press release from the district attorney’s office.

Anthony Wallace, 19, will be required to serve 85 percent of his sentence before he is eligible for parole, the release said.

In December, Wallace was convicted of felony armed robbery, aggravated burglary, assault with intent to commit a violent felony, intimidation of a state’s witness and attempted armed robbery, according to the release.

Police have said Wallace and two others assaulted four individuals at gunpoint and demanded money outside a Clovis secondhand store Jan. 7, 2007.

The next day the body of a 36-year-old Clovis man was discovered in the store. Emmett Salisbury had been shot once in the chest, police have said.

Wallace, Josh Martinez, 30, and Larry McClendon, 20, are each charged with an open count of murder in connection with Salisbury’s death.