A shooting that caused an emergency alert and lockdown of metro schools and businesses has resulted in a seven-year sentence for the perpetrator.

Thirty-three-year-old Matthew Fowler recently pleaded guilty to five charges, after initially facing almost 20.

The mid-morning incident occurred in September of 2022 in C.B.S., and was first said to involve two or three shooting scenes and victims.

In the end, Fowler admitted shooting one man in a house on Uplands Road, with the bullet going through his wrist and lodging in his thigh.

The victim, who is recovering, was one of several men believed to have been messaging with Fowler’s girlfriend on Facebook.

Fowler was arrested several hours later, following a brief and dramatic car chase on St. Thomas’s Line.

And while his sentence is seven years, with credit for time already served, and extra credit because it was at HMP, Fowler has about five years left inside.

He could be eligible for parole after serving one third of that.