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Nation music star Morgan Wallen was arrested in Nashville late Sunday for allegedly throwing a chair off a downtown rooftop.
Wallen was arrested on three felony fees of reckless endangerment, Metropolitan Nashville Police Division mentioned in an X post Monday morning.
In keeping with arrest affidavit obtained by CNN affiliate WTVF, a number of Metro Nashville law enforcement officials had been standing exterior of Chief’s Bar on Broadway simply earlier than 11:00 p.m. on Sunday night time when a chair fell from above and landed simply ft from the place they had been standing. Staff of the bar advised police that the defendant recognized as Wallen threw the chair from the highest ground of the six-story restaurant and bar.
Surveillance digital camera footage from the bar’s rooftop confirmed Wallen “lunging” and “throwing an object over the roof,” in accordance with the report. Witnesses who noticed the incident unfold advised police that they noticed Wallen seize a chair and throw it, noting that Wallen laughed afterwards.
Wallen’s lawyer, Worrick Robinson, confirmed the singer’s arrest in a quick assertion to CNN on Monday.
“At 10:53p Sunday night Morgan Wallen was arrested in downtown Nashville for reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct,” the assertion learn. “He’s cooperating totally with authorities.”
Wallen, 30, is going through three counts of reckless endangerment with a lethal weapon – a category E felony in Tennessee – as a result of the chair landed close to two law enforcement officials and for “the hazard to the general public,” in accordance with the affidavit. He’s additionally going through one rely of disorderly conduct.
Wallen’s bond was set at $15,250, in accordance with the Davidson County Felony Court docket website. He has a court docket date scheduled for Could 3.