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SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) \u2014 A former guitarist for Grammy-winning Baltimore hardcore band Turnstile has been charged with attempted murder after authorities say he chased down and struck a former bandmate\u2019s father with his car, badly injuring him.<\/p>\n
Montgomery County police officers responding to a Sunday report about a pedestrian being struck in the Washington, D.C., suburb of Silver Spring found William Yates, the 79-year-old father of lead singer Brendan Yates, injured in a front yard, according to charging documents.<\/p>\n Yates\u2019 family said guitarist Brady Ebert, a neighbor who parted ways with the band several years ago, had struck him with a car, police wrote. Yates\u2019 daughter, Erin Gerber, told authorities that she and her husband were getting their kids out of their car when Ebert drove up honking at them and yelling obscenities, then drove into her father.<\/p>\n In video footage obtained from a neighbor, Ebert could be seen driving a gold Buick LeSabre and swerving toward William Yates but missing him, according to the charging documents. Yates then threw a rock at Ebert\u2019s vehicle and Gerber dragged her 3-year-old son onto the lawn to avoid being hit. Ebert then turned sharply into Yates\u2019 driveway and struck him as he was trying to run away, investigators wrote. Ebert finally drove across the lawn and left.<\/p>\n Yates told a detective that as he was injured on the ground, Ebert returned and yelled that he \u201cdeserved it\u201d before driving off again, according to charging documents.<\/p>\n Yates said Ebert used to be in a band with his son and had been causing problems for his family since being kicked out. He said Ebert had been taunting them for long time, but that his behavior had been escalating.<\/p>\n Ebert, 33, was arrested Tuesday and charged with attempted second-degree murder and first-degree assault, court records show.<\/p>\n During a bond hearing Thursday in which he appeared via video, Ebert called William Yates a \u201cmaniac\u201d who threw a rock at him asked the judge to watch the surveillance footage, saying it would \u201ccontradict\u201d the authorities\u2019 narrative of what happened,\u00a0The Baltimore Banner reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n But prosecutor Dominic Plantamura said the footage shows it was a \u201cclearly targeted attack\u201d and that Yates is lucky he wasn\u2019t injured more seriously.<\/p>\n Ebert\u2019s lawyer, John Costello, acknowledged Ebert\u2019s contentious history with his former bandmate, but said, \u201cThat does not, in this instance, warrant extra detention.\u201d Costello\u2019s office declined to comment to The Associated Press.<\/p>\n The judge ordered Ebert held without bond.<\/p>\n According to Plantamura, William Yates was injured so badly that a bone stuck out of one leg.<\/p>\n In a statement, Turnstile said it cut ties with Ebert in 2022, \u201cin response to a consistent pattern of harmful behavior.\u201d It said a boundary had to be set after he began threatening violence. While Ebert\u2019s \u201cbaseless tirades\u201d continued in public since then, the band said it didn\u2019t address them to protect his privacy. Threats escalated in recent months and then there was a physical attack on Brendan Yates\u2019 father this week, the band wrote.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are grateful that Mr. Yates survived, has successfully undergone surgery, and we\u2019re hoping for the best possible outcome in his recovery,\u201d the band said. \u201cWe have no language left for Brady.\u201d<\/p>\n Turnstile were underground stalwarts until their 2021 album \u201cGlow On\u201d launched them into mainstream consciousness. They\u00a0cemented their status<\/a>\u00a0this year by winning Grammys for\u00a0Best Rock Album<\/a>\u00a0and Best Metal Performance.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n