A Pine Bluff man wanted in connection with the attempted murder of a police officer in 2023 was arrested Monday in Texas, almost a year after the initial incident.
On Friday, police reported that 27-year-old Chaderious Avery was taken into custody in Seagoville, Texas Monday and will be extradited back to Pine Bluff where he will be held on a $1million cash only bond.
According to a criminal information sheet filed in the Jefferson County Circuit Clerk’s Office Aug. 2, Avery is charged with criminal attempt capital murder, two counts of violating the machine gun act, one county of committing a terroristic act, one count of first-degree criminal mischief, two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm and 39 counts of aggravated assault, one count for each of the bullet holes that police found in the car of Officer Kimberly Dunn on Oct. 5, 2023.
Dunn was in her patrol car parked at Camelot Apartments at 4001 Old Warren Road when Avery and a second man, Quantavious Sission, who was arrested near the apartments allegedly fired shots at Dunn’s vehicle. She drove herself to the hospital not knowing if she had been shot or not.
Witnesses at the scene told police the shooters ran toward Lincoln Green and while searching the area, the owner of a home on Mockingbird Road said she saw a male put a gun near the fence line behind her house. Police located two Glock handguns that were both equipped with switches that made them fully automatic.
Dunn positively identified Avery after she was shown his photograph.
Prosecutors also said in the criminal information that if Avery is he is subject to an additional period of confinement not to exceed 15 years for using a gun during the commission of another felony.
