CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The suspect who sparked concerns about North Carolina bond law pleaded guilty to shooting a CMPD officer in a June 2022 incident in NoDa.
On July 29, 34-year-old Toddrick McFadden pleaded guilty to shooting a Charlotte police officer in the leg.
In June of 2022, CMPD officers responded to a call for a disturbance at The Blind Pig, a popular bar at the corner of North Davidson Street and East 36th Street, around 2:30 a.m. Police said a patron of the bar, 32-year-old Toddrick McFadden, was asked to leave after an altercation.
One of the responding officers was shot in the leg and rushed to a hospital, police said.
Police said McFadden was later arrested and charged with discharging a weapon into occupied property, two counts of attempted murder, and two counts of assault on a law enforcement officer.
The shooting also sparked more frustrations about bond law from CMPD Police Chief Johnny Jennings. In June of 2022, Jennings publicly expressed his frustration after a Mecklenburg County magistrate set a $170,000 bond for Toddrick McFadden. McFadden was accused of a slew of charges, including shooting and injuring a CMPD officer.
Jennings said he's been upset about low bonds in other criminal cases, but he pointed to the McFadden case as the tipping point for him to speak up.
A county judge later raised McFadden's bond and the accused shooter has still not bonded out of jail.