A 35-year-old man is set to spend 24 years in prison after he was convicted of multiple felonies for a robbery last year at the Target in Greeley.

Last week, Abdirahman Hussein Mohamed, 35 was sentenced to more than two decades in prison, according to a news release from the Weld District Attorney's Office.

In July, a jury convicted Mohamed of aggravated robbery, menacing with a deadly weapon and theft.

This case dates back to July 2020, when Greeley police responded to a report of a robbery at Target, 4400 CenterPlace Drive.

The victim told officers Mohamed approached the customer service counter, where he believed Mohamed was going to purchase headphones an associate had brought to the counter. Mohamed also asked the victim if an HP Chromebook laptop was brought to the counter.

As the victim was ringing up the items, Mohamed leaned over, pulled down his mask and told the victim he had a gun, according to the release. He also threatened to return to the store to shoot up the place if the victim told anyone.

Mohamed grabbed the laptop and left without paying.

Police discovered he was on parole with a GPS monitor during the robbery. When Mohamed was arrested the following day, he had the same outfit on that he was wearing in Target, which was seen on surveillance footage. Police also found a gun holster concealed in his pants, according to the DA's Office.

"It's clear that no level of supervision or structure will result in the defendant remaining law abiding," Deputy District Attorney Lacy Wells said during the sentencing hearing. "This defendant is a danger to the community at large, his victims are strangers. The longer he is confined, the fewer victims we will have in Weld County."

The victim prepared a statement for last week's hearing where he referred to the incident as "daunting" as well as "liberating," according to the release.

"The man who robbed me not only threatened my life in the moment, but immediately after the effects were extraordinarily profound and changed my life forever," the victim told the judge at the hearing. "The night after the robbery, I remember pacing around, wondering if this man was going to show up and seek out his vengeance.

"He already threatened my life once. Why wouldn't he again?"