CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A office dispute at a Charlotte Popeyes turned violent after a supervisor allegedly shot a fellow worker over an argument about overcooked biscuits.
In keeping with native stories, 22-year-old Rodney Wooden has been charged with tried first-degree homicide following the incident, which occurred on Sunday, Might 11, on the Popeyes location on South Boulevard.
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Division responded to a report of an assault with a lethal weapon. Upon arrival, they discovered a person affected by life-threatening gunshot wounds. He was transported by medics to a close-by hospital.
Court docket paperwork cited by WBTV-TV state that the altercation started contained in the restaurant, reportedly over “burnt biscuits.” Witnesses say the dispute between Wooden and the sufferer — each managers on the institution — escalated and continued exterior, the place it turned bodily.
Wooden is accused of taking pictures the sufferer twice at point-blank vary, as soon as within the groin and once more within the chest, earlier than fleeing the scene. He was later apprehended by police close by. Wooden allegedly instructed officers that the opposite supervisor had punched him a number of occasions, prompting him to fireside what he claimed have been “warning pictures.”
The 2 males have been recognized to have had ongoing tensions. WBTV stories that Wooden had beforehand requested a switch to a different location as a consequence of private conflicts with the sufferer.
Wooden stays in custody on the Mecklenburg County Jail on a cost of tried first-degree homicide. The situation of the taking pictures sufferer has not been disclosed publicly.
