Overview
- Charging documents say that in March former Turnstile guitarist Brady Ebert drove at 79-year-old William Yates in Silver Spring, struck him and caused trauma to Yates’s lower extremities.
- Prosecutors have charged Ebert with attempted first- and second-degree murder plus related counts, with the top count carrying a possible life sentence if he is convicted.
- Ebert has been held without bail at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility since his April arrest.
- At a court hearing this week Ebert’s lawyer told Judge Eric Johnson he had “significant concerns regarding competency,” and the judge ordered a formal competency evaluation with a Sept. 22 status hearing set.
- Ebert denies the charges, says video will clear him and has threatened to fire his attorney, while Turnstile says it cut ties with him in 2022 and the alleged victim is the father of the band’s singer who has undergone surgery following the incident.