CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - A Parkersburg man who was shot by police during a standoff last year has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison for a weapons violation.
Forty-three-year-old Paul Christopher Johnson was sentenced Thursday in federal court in Charleston for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Federal prosecutors say officers in Parkersburg tried to serve a drug arrest warrant on Johnson when he was in a parked vehicle last July. Johnson pointed a loaded pistol at police, told them he was not going back to prison, then drove away. He was later stopped, got out of his vehicle and was shot and wounded as he moved toward officers with the gun.
Johnson had been previously convicted of aggravated robbery and shoplifting.
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