CHARLOTTE (QUEEN CITY NEWS) -- An Indian Trail man is facing serious charges after a violent attack involving a machete and brass knuckles outside a Charlotte bar, authorities said.

According to Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department records, the attack happened around 2 a.m. on Saturday, August 9, at a bar in the 300 block of Brevard Street in uptown Charlotte.

When CMPD officers arrived, they found a man outside a bar with a severe cut on his left hand. Nearby, they also found the suspect, identified as Matthew Terry King, 39, covered in blood, with a large machete-style blade and brass knuckles at a table next to him.

Witnesses told CMPD that earlier in the night, an argument broke out between King and others inside the bar. Staff eventually removed King from the business. But about

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