A 21-year-old Wilson man is being held without bond after two alleged disturbances at ECU Health Medical Center’s emergency department in Greenville, nine days apart. WITN reports that Kaden Craddock faces eight charges stemming from the September incidents. The allegations are described in warrants and are not findings of guilt.
Warrants cited in WITN’s report say that on September 22 Craddock allegedly took a woman to the ground and held her in a headlock until others intervened. The warrants also allege threats to nursing staff and a threat to shoot and hit a woman with a bat.
The warrants describe an earlier disturbance at the same emergency department on September 13. They allege that Craddock damaged three computer monitors, threw a table that struck a woman’s foot, bit a campus police officer and a nurse, and scratched another officer in the face, leaving the nurse with abrasions.
According to WITN, the charges are assault causing physical injury to a law enforcement, probation or parole officer; assault causing physical injury to emergency personnel; simple assault; assault on a college or campus police officer; damaging computers; disorderly conduct; assault on a female; and communicating threats. The report says Craddock was taken to the Pitt County Jail and is being held without bond. The information cited here does not establish what prompted either disturbance or resolve the allegations.
State law sets a security-plan requirement
The incidents occurred in a setting where North Carolina law requires licensed hospitals with emergency departments to conduct a security risk assessment and adopt a security plan. The plan generally must provide for at least one law enforcement officer in the emergency department or on the same campus, subject to an exception under the law, G.S. 131E-88.
A national measure offers broader workplace context: NIOSH reports that in 2020 health care and social assistance workers had an incidence rate of 10.3 injuries from assaults and violent acts by other people per 10,000 full-time workers. The NIOSH resource also discusses methodological differences.
