A 54-year-old man was sentenced Friday to three years in prison for his role in a February 2023 shooting at a Central Lubbock after-hours club that left one man dead.
Patrick Bradley, who had been held at the Lubbock County Detention Center since Oct. 10, 2025, appeared in the 137th District Court and pleaded guilty to a count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
He admitted to shooting at Isaiah Brown at an after-hours club in the 1300 block of 35th Street.
Bradley was also charged with murder in the Feb. 11, 2023 shooting death of Brown's uncle, Clifton Holman, who was also at the club.
However, that charge was dismissed as part of a plea agreement with the Lubbock County District Attorney's Office.
Investigating a deadly shooting at a Lubbock club
Bradley was one of two people arrested
as a result of a Lubbock Metropolitan Special Crimes Unit investigation of the shootings.
Tony Johnson, 43, was also served with an arrest warrant charging him with murder in Holman's death. He was booked into the Lubbock County jail on Feb. 13, about two weeks after his 2023 conviction and 33-month sentence on a federal weapons charge was overturned.
Their charges stem from a from a Lubbock Metropolitan Special Crimes Unit Investigation that began after Lubbock police officers responded about 3 a.m. Feb. 11, 2023, for a report of shots fired at an “after-hours” location in the 1300 block of 35th Street.
Responding officers found Holman at the scene suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. He was taken by ambulance to University Medical Center, where he died.
Holman's brother, who was at the scene, told investigators he didn't see the shooting, but heard from other people that someone known by the street name, "Goldie" was the shooter, according to an arrest affidavit.
Police records showed Bradley had used the alias before.
Investigators learned that Holman and Bradley had a heated conversation about the Aug. 15, 2022, drive-by shooting that killed Johnson's 69-year-old mother, Margie, in her home.
Police officials said no arrests have yet been made in that case, which remains under investigation.
Video from the bar's security camera showed Bradley and Holman having what investigators described as an animated conversation before they were seen later by another witness at the club.
The witness told investigators he saw Holman trying to calm down the situation when he said Bradley reportedly shot at Brown then chased him out of the building.
The witness said he and Holman pushed their way out of the building and saw Holman's nephew driving away.
Meanwhile, the witness said he turned back and heard more gunshots and sensed bullets flying past him.
About 12 minutes after the shots fired call was reported at the club, dispatchers received another shots-fired call at an apartment complex in the 4400 block of 82nd Street.
Responding officers met with Johnson's common-law wife, who reportedly told them she and Johnson had returned to their apartment and heard gunshots after her husband went back to their vehicle to get their dogs.
Moments later, she said Johnson ran back to their apartment then left.
Responding officers found Johnson walking through the apartment complex, the warrant states.
Johnson reportedly told the officer that he was walking to his vehicle when someone called his name from a parked Mercury Grand Marquis and ran back to the apartment complex. He said he heard gunshots as he ran away.
Officers found the Grand Marquis in the 8200 block of Raleigh Avenue where they found bullet holes in the driver's side of the vehicle, a spent shell casing from a .223 caliber bullet and multiple casings from 9mm bullets.
Johnson identified the vehicle as the one Holman's nephew drove, saying it was the same vehicle involved in his mother's shooting.
Meanwhile, investigators spoke with Brown, who said he saw his uncle speaking with Bradley at CC's as he was leaving the bar. He said he met up with Holman at the after-hours spot where they were approached by Bradley and Johnson, the warrant states.
He told investigators that he began running to the exit when Bradley drew a pistol, aimed at him and began firing.
He said he got to his vehicle and drove away, heading to his uncle's apartment in the 8200 block of Raleigh.
However, when he arrived, he said someone began shooting at his vehicle, which he abandoned.
Ballistics would later link the two shootings, the warrant states.
Investigators would later speak with Johnson, who reportedly told them he left work around 2 a.m. that morning and went straight home. He denied being at the after-hours club.
A warrant for Bradley's arrest was issued, charging him with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in connection with the shooting of Holman's nephew.
Four days after Holman's shooting, Bradley surrendered to police and spoke with investigators, admitting to being at CC's where he saw Holman.
He told investigators that Johnson's family suspected Homan and his nephew were involved in the death of Margie Johnson, whom he considered a second mother.
He said Holman denied being part of the drive-by shooting that killed Johnson.
However, he told investigators that Tony Johnson wasn't at CC's bar but did appear at the after0hours club after he called him to tell him that Holman was there.
Bradley denied firing a weapon at the club or seeing who did.
He said he got in Johnson's vehicle after the shooting, telling investigators he saw a gun in the vehicle.
He reportedly told investigators that Johnson told him, "I got him, I got him, but it ain't gonna bring my momma back."
Bradley reportedly said they went to Johnson's apartment where he heard more gunshots in the parking lot.
He said Johnson returned fire and saw a man jump out of a vehicle.
Detectives would later find cell tower location data that showed Johnson and Bradley were in the area of the after-hours club at the time of Holman's shooting.
Bradley, who was arrested in Brown's shooting, was booked into the Lubbock County Detention Center where he remained until July 2024, when he was released on a bond reduced from $300,000 to $100,000.
He was arrested in October 2025 after he was indicted for murder in Holman's slaying.
Meanwhile, in July of 2023, Johnson, who was on supervised release after serving a 15-year federal sentence from a 2006 drug trafficking conviction, was arrested for violating the terms of his release. During the arrest, officers found a 9mm pistol in his vehicle, which resulted in a new federal count of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
It was not immediately clear if that was the same weapon used in Holman's shootings.
He was sentenced in December to a total of 42 months in federal prison, according to court records.
However, justices with the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals found that officers found the weapon during an unjustified warrantless search.
After the conviction was overturned, federal prosecutors moved to dismiss his federal indictment.
Johnson remains held at the Lubbock County jail. His bond is set at $250,000.
Gabriel Monte is the criminal justice reporter for the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal in Texas. Have a news tip for him? Email him at gmonte@lubbockonline.com.
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