Country Music Singer Morgan Wallen is free on bond after he was arrested on felony charges for allegedly throwing a chair off a six-story building.
USA Today reported that Metro Nashville Police Department charged the 30-year-old Wallen three counts of reckless endangerment and one count of disorderly conduct. The country singer allegedly threw a chair for “no legitimate purpose,” police said. The incident happened late Sunday night.
According to an arrest affidavit obtained by USA Today, “at 10:53 p.m. local time, two police officers were standing in front of Chief’s Bar in the city’s entertainment district on Lower Broadway when they saw a chair fall from above and hit the street about three feet from them.”
Per the affidavit, bar employees told police Wallen threw the chair. Video footage allegedly confirmed this by showing Wallen “lunging and throwing an object off the roof.”
Eric Church, a country music singer in his own right, owns the bar.
Witnesses said they were standing next to Wallen when they saw him “pick up the chair, throw it over him, laughing afterward,” the affidavit said.
The reckless endangerment charges stem from two officers were in the area “and the incident posed a danger to public,” per the outlet.
The affidavit said officers arrested him for disorderly conduct because “he created a hazardous condition by an act that served no legitimate purpose.”
A court official told USA Today Wallen posted a $15,250 bond.
No injuries were reported.
Wallen’s lawyer, Worrick Robinson, confirmed knowledge of the arrest and wrote Wallen is “cooperating fully with authorities.”
Wallen has been in trouble before when a video surfaced in 2021 of him shouting a racial slur after few says of drinking.
“Obviously, the natural thing to do is to apologize further and just continue to apologize but because you got caught and that’s not what I wanted to do,” the singer said. “I let so many people down. And [people] who mean a lot to me and give so much to me. And that’s just not fair.”
