An irate bar patron who opened fire on workers at a Bronx nightspot after he was booted for smoking — only to be shot and wounded by an off-duty parole officer — has been charged with attempted murder, police said Wednesday.
Prodrika Thompson, 40, is also facing charges of assault with a weapon, criminal use of a firearm, and reckless endangerment for the Labor Day shooting at the Kutty Bar & Lounge on Boston Road near Mace Ave.
Thompson was inside the bar around 1:30 a.m. when he was bounced for smoking inside the premises, cops said.
Outraged, he went to his SUV, retrieved a gun, burst back inside the Pelham Parkway watering hole, and started shooting, according to police.
One of Thompson’s barrage of bullets had hit a 37-year-old cook in the right leg when an off-duty parole officer — a lounge patron — pulled out his own gun and opened fire, hitting Thompson multiple times.
The wounded and bleeding Thompson then stumbled out of the bar, into his white Honda CR-V and sped off, cops said. He only made it a block before crashing into a light pole at Mace and Wallace Aves., cops said.
EMS rushed Thompson to Jacobi Medical Center, where he remained in critical but stable condition Wednesday. His arraignment in Bronx criminal court was pending.
The wounded cook wasn’t Thompson’s intended target, police sources said. The bar worker was also taken to Jacobi Medical Center, where he was treated and released.
The parole officer wasn’t hurt, cops said.
Thompson had been arrested for shooting a 34-year-old man in the buttocks in a drive-by outside Last Stop Grill on White Plains Road near E 240th St. in Wakefield about 2:50 a.m. on Oct. 29, sources said. He allegedly fired nine times in that incident.
Thompson is out on bail in that case, according to court documents.
