Livestreamer known for racist content faces attempted murder charge, bond set at $1.25 million
The judge cited the courthouse crowd and the seriousness of the felonies in setting the bond after prosecutors sought to hold him without bond.
- On Friday, livestreamer Dalton Eatherly, known online as 'Chud the Builder,' appeared in court charged with attempted murder after a shooting outside Montgomery County Courthouse in Clarksville on Wednesday; General Session Court Judge Reid Poland III set bond at $1.2 million.
- A confrontation outside the courthouse Wednesday before 2 p.m. escalated when Eatherly shot a man in the stomach and shot himself in the arm; Eatherly recounted in a livestreamed video that a man approached saying 'You start saying all that chimp out s**t to me and imma hit you,' then struck him.
- Prosecutors documented Eatherly's history as a livestreamer who filmed racially charged content with racial slurs targeting Black people; days before, he was arrested May 9 in Nashville after refusing to pay a $371 meal at Bob's Steak and Chop and becoming disruptive when asked to stop livestreaming.
- Attempted criminal homicide carries a possible 15 to 60-year sentence in Tennessee state penitentiary, the judge noted; a preliminary hearing was set for May 26 and another bond hearing scheduled for May 21, with Eatherly closing his eyes when the judge announced the bond amount.
- Eatherly faced a separate civil hearing Wednesday over a $3,300 debt to Midland Credit Management Inc. at the same courthouse where the shooting occurred; the unidentified victim, described as Black by a witness to the Associated Press, was Life Flighted to Vanderbilt University Medical Center while Eatherly received treatment at Clarksville Hospital.
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