A man awaiting trial in state court for a shooting at an Alabama gas station has pleaded guilty to federal charges of being a felon in possession of two firearms, including a machine gun.

Kelvontae Rashad Wallace, 26, entered his guilty plea before U.S. District Judge R. David Proctor, Northern District of Alabama U.S. Attorney Prim Escalona announced Tuesday.

Sentencing has been set for August.

On Dec. 15, 2023, Talladega police were dispatched to a report of a shooting Benny’s Stop & Shop on West Street North.

When they arrived, they found a 38-year-old man wounded inside the store. The victim has been shot in the stomach, back and both legs, and taken to UAB Hospital.

Officers collected five .45 caliber spent shell casings from the scene and there were at least three bullet holes in the glass on the store windows and door.

Surveillance video from the store showed Wallace drive up to the store, exit his vehicle, and shoot the victim with a Glock pistol that had been converted to a machinegun using machinegun conversion device, commonly referred to as a “Glock switch.”

On Jan. 2, 2024, the U.S. Marshals Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force, ATF investigators and Pell City police tracked down Wallace at an apartment complex in Pell City.

When law enforcement officers arrived, Wallace tried to flee out the back door of the apartment, but the officers were able to catch and arrest him.

Officers recovered a Century Arms Micro VSKA 7.62x39mm pistol with a round chambered and a loaded magazine from Wallace’s apartment.

Wallace was prohibited from having weapons because he pleaded guilty in 2022 to discharging a gun into an occupied building and second-degree assault. He received a suspected sentence.

He is charged again in state court with assault and discharging a firearm into an occupied building. He is set to go on trial on those charges in October.

ATF investigated the federal case along with the U.S. Marshals Service Gulf Coast Fugitive Task Force, and the Pell City, Talladega and Anniston police departments.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Kristy M. Peoples prosecuted the federal case.