Overview
- Brady Ebert, indicted Thursday by a Montgomery County grand jury, now faces an attempted first-degree murder charge that carries a possible life sentence.
- Police say a neighbor’s camera shows Ebert driving his 2001 Buick toward 79-year-old William Yates in Silver Spring on March 29 before striking him in the Yates family driveway.
- Prosecutors describe severe leg trauma that required surgery, with an assistant state’s attorney saying a bone was protruding.
- Ebert says he acted in self-defense and told a court commissioner that surveillance video will clear him.
- He remains jailed without bail and has a May 8 court scheduling conference set in Montgomery County.