A South Bend man has been sentenced in U.S. District Court in South Bend to 97 months in prison after being found guilty of two counts of being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm.

According to court documents, Leontis Cornelius, 44, possessed guns on two occasions.

In 2020, he was engaged in a shootout outside his house when he fired seven .45 caliber rounds at a moving vehicle. The following year, he carried a loaded rifle with a large capacity magazine while in another person’s yard in the middle of the night.

Cornelius has multiple prior felony convictions, including cocaine and weapons-related counts, any of which ban him from possessing the firearms.