SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- The United States Attorney’s Office Northern District of Indiana announced 31-year-old Denzel Givens and 34-year-old Christopher Rucker, both of South Bend, were sentenced after each previously pled guilty to being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm.

Givens was sentenced to seven years and eight months in prison followed by three years of supervised release.

Rucker was sentenced to seven years in prison followed by two years of supervised release.

Court documents state in January Givens drove to an apartment complex parking lot in South Bend and backed into a parking spot facing a lane.

Documents state Rucker was in the car with Givens and when a specific car drove down the lane, Givens began shooting two firearms at the car.

That car’s occupant then returned fire.

Documents state Givens fired nearly 20 rounds, with some entering the occupied car and the occupied apartment buildings behind the car.

After the shooting, court documents state Rucker took both guns fired by Givens and hid them in a nearby apartment.

Givens and Rucker had previously been convicted of felony offenses, and both were prohibited from possessing firearms.