A 21-year-old Charlotte man was sentenced to nine years in federal prison for his role in a 2024 shootout during which a school bus was struck by gunfire.
The defendant, Paris Alonzo Lewis-Bynum, was sentenced for illegally possessing a firearm and using a firearm to further drug trafficking activities.
The sentence was announced Aug. 13 by Russ Ferguson, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina…