Dec 20, 2024
CHARLOTTE (QUEEN CITY NEWS) —  Bus camera video released Thursday by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools shows the moments when a CMS bus was hit by gunfire on Monday. The students from Albemarle Road Middle School ducked for cover as their bus was hit while it was rolling down the road. PREVIOUS COVERAGE | 2nd person charged after shots fired into school bus in east Charlotte In court Thursday, Judge Fritz Mercer said he denied bond for the suspected shooter because of his prior criminal history and his current charges related to the bus shooting. There were bullet holes in the CMS bus, and students were hit by glass when the window shattered from the gunfire on Monday. “Again, we see innocent victims that fall prey to this; it’s frustrating. We’ve got a gun problem in this city; we’ve got a violence problem in this city,” said Dan Redford, president of the Char-Meck Fraternal Order of Police. Police say the shooting Monday started because two men were fighting over drugs. Jail records show one of those men, the suspected shooter, Paris Lewis-Bynum, has been arrested eight times in the last two and a half years. Prison records show that just four months ago, in August of this year, Lewis-Bynum was convicted of a felony firearms charge, but he wasn’t sentenced to any time in prison for that. He just got probation and a suspended sentence. Paris Lewis-Bynum (Mecklenburg County Jail) Lamarius Anthony (Mecklenburg County Jail) The other suspect, Lamarius Anthony, was not charged with the actual shooting but was arrested for carrying a concealed weapon and drug charges related to the incident on Monday. “It’s not surprising to see that both of these gentlemen have a criminal record, especially the one that was arrested and actually charged with the shooting has a violent criminal history; he’s a convicted felon; he never should have had a firearm in the first place,” said Redford. Redford says the judge made the right decision Thursday denying bond for Lewis-Bynum, but Redford is frustrated that more groups aren’t speaking up for innocent victims like the two children hit by glass that shattered when the bullets hit the window of the bus. “If nobody else is going to speak out for the victim and victims’ families in these cases, we’re going to continue to do so because we stand alongside them because there’s no place for violence in our city,” said Redford. Lewis-Bynum will remain in jail under no bond. He’s due back here in court on January 9. READ NEXT | Will there be a white Christmas this year in Charlotte?
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