Quinton Ezeagwula, one of the soldiers shot outside a Little Rock Army recruiting center in 2009, was arrested Saturday after threatening police officers while intoxicated, according to an arrest report.
Ezeagwula, 25, of Little Rock refused to leave a McDonald's on Cantrell Road about 11:30 p.m., police said. When police arrived, the former private "was very aggressive and wouldn't stop yelling," an officer wrote in the report.
Ezeagwula smelled of alcohol, and his girlfriend told police that he had been drinking, the report said.
After police arrested him on suspicion of disorderly conduct and public intoxication -- both misdemeanors -- he told the officers that he would find them and "break their necks," the report said. He also threatened to hurt them once they removed the handcuffs, it said.
He was charged with two counts of terroristic threatening -- a class D felony.
Ezeagwula was released from Pulaski County jail on $5,300 bond. An attempt to reach him Sunday night was unsuccessful.
Ezeagwula was thrust into the national spotlight in June 2009 after Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad opened fire at the Little Rock Army-Navy Career Center on North Rodney Parham Road.
Pvt. William Andrew Long, 23, of Conway was killed in the attack; Ezeagwula was wounded in his back, head and buttocks. Both had stepped outside the recruiting center to smoke.
Muhammad, who was charged with capital murder and attempted capital murder, was convicted in 2011 and is serving a life sentence in prison.
Long and Ezeagwula were awarded Purple Hearts in a ceremony at the state Capitol last summer, after a federal law that only allowed military members killed or injured fighting on foreign soil to receive Purple Hearts was changed.
Metro on 05/16/2016