Unless Andres Torres is involved, there's likely no connection:

"While visiting St. Petersburg [to celebrate friend Andres Torres's birthday], Vasquez was shot in the chest after a verbal argument with Andres Torres [in a Publix supermarket]." [0]

I'm having some difficulty discovering the details of Mr. Torres's conviction and sentencing, but it has only been a year and a half since that shooting. My gut tells me that someone convicted of such a thing would serve more than one-and-a-half years.

[0] http://www.businessinsider.com/eddy-vasquez-murdered-2013-11