Livestreamer “Chud the Builder” was involved in a confrontation “with gunfire” outside a Tennessee courthouse Wednesday, authorities said.
The controversial 28-year-old streamer, whose real name is Dalton Eatherly and who is known for using offensive racial language, was involved in a confrontation around 1:20 p.m. outside the Montgomery County Courthouse in Clarksville, District Attorney General Robert J. Nash of the 19th Judicial District said in a statement.
The confrontation with an “unknown male” escalated to gunfire, Nash said.
Both sustained gunshot wounds, the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office said.
Eatherly was the person who opened fire, and he appeared to have shot himself in the arm, the news website Clarksville Now reported, citing Nash.
Law enforcement officers secured the scene, locked down the courthouse and took one person into custody, Nash said.
The two people were taken to hospitals and are stable, the sheriff’s office said.
The incident is under investigation, and there’s no threat to the public, according to the sheriff’s office and Nash’s office.
Eatherly was scheduled to appear at the courthouse at 9 a.m. Wednesday as the defendant in a contract/debt case, according to online dockets.
Eatherly is a controversial online personality, known for posting “rage-bait” content, repeatedly using racial slurs and challenging people to fight him.
He was arrested Sunday in Nashville after he was alleged to have walked out on a restaurant bill and resisted arrest, according to court documents.
In the alleged incident, Eatherly went to Bob’s Steak & Chop House, where he was asked not to livestream. When he was caught streaming and was asked to stop, “he became disruptive and started making racial statements, yelling, screaming,” a probable cause affidavit said.
He also said, “I’m not paying if you are kicking me out,” and refused to pay his $371.55 bill, according to the affidavit. He was charged with disorderly conduct and theft of services, it said.
The next day, officers saw him walking down a street in Nashville and detained him on outstanding warrants, according to a separate affidavit. He pulled his arm away when officers tried to handcuff him, resulting in the resisting arrest charge, the affidavit said.
He was released after he posted $5,000 bond, according to the court docket.
No attorney for him in those cases was listed. He is due back in court on those charges on July 17.
