The attempted murder charge against ex-Turnstile guitarist Brady Ebert isn’t an isolated incident—it’s the violent culmination of a years-long pattern of threats that the band explicitly warned about when they cut ties in 2022, now casting a shadow over their recent Grammy triumph.
A shocking criminal complaint has laid bare the volatile aftermath of a major band’s breakup. Brady Ebert, the founding guitarist of the Grammy-winning rock band Turnstile, has been arrested and charged with attempted second-degree murder and first-degree assault after allegedly running over the 79-year-old father of his former bandmate Brendan Yates with his vehicle in Silver Spring, Maryland.
The incident, which occurred on March 29, left William Yates with severe trauma to both legs, requiring surgery. Court records indicate that Ebert, 33, had been harassing the Yates family for years, with behavior that escalated from honking and yelling obscenities to the alleged intentional hit-and-run. He was apprehended the next day at a nearby shopping center and is being held without bond.
This violent episode represents a terrifying escalation in a feud that traces back to Turnstile’s 2022 decision to sever all ties with Ebert. The band—comprising singer Brendan Yates, guitarists Pat McCrory and Meg Mills, bassist Franz Lyons, and drummer Daniel Fang—issued a stark statement to Rolling Stone explaining their reasoning.
A Pattern of Harmful Behavior and Escalating Threats
According to the band’s statement, they “cut ties” with Ebert in 2022 “in response to a consistent pattern of harmful behavior affecting himself, the band, and the community.” They described exhausting every resource to support his recovery before setting a firm boundary when “healthy communication was no longer possible and he began threatening violence.”
The statement reveals that even after his departure, Ebert’s “baseless tirades” continued publicly, though the band chose not to address them to protect his privacy. “Over the past few months, his threats only escalated further,” they noted, directly linking this escalation to the alleged attack on William Yates. “This past week, that violence led to a physical attack,” the statement reads, confirming the family’s account to police that Ebert returned to the scene and told his former bandmate’s father he “deserved it.”
Ebert’s post-Turnstile trajectory was similarly fraught. He briefly joined the group The S.E.T., but they fired him in February, stating they “will not stand by his ridiculous comments and behavior toward the members of our band and our community.”
The Starkest Contrast: Grammy Glory Amidst Personal Ruin
The timing of this arrest creates a jarring juxtaposition. While Ebert allegedly plotted violence, the band he helped found reached a career zenith. Turnstile released their first album without him, Never Enough, in June 2025, and went on to win both Best Rock Album and Best Metal Performance at the 2026 Grammy Awards in February—a triumphant validation of their path forward.
This success, built on the creative contributions of Yates, McCrory, Mills, Lyons, and Fang, now unfolds against the backdrop of a criminal case involving the very person they once built a musical empire with. The band’s statement concluded with a plea for privacy and a sense of exhausted resolve: “We have no language left for Brady.”
Legal Proceedings and Community Impact
Ebert’s legal situation is severe. Charged with two felonies, he appeared in court on April 2, the same day the band’s statement was published. His attorney, Andrew D. Alpert, declined to comment when contacted by People, who first reported the arrest.
The case underscores how personal and professional ruptures can spiral into public tragedy. Ebert and Yates grew up down the street from one another and co-founded Turnstile in 2010, making the alleged attack on Yates’s father not just a random crime but a profound violation of a long-standing personal connection.
For Turnstile’s dedicated fanbase, this news represents a devastating contradiction. The band’s message of unity and resilience, celebrated in their music and Grammy wins, is now inextricably linked to the alleged violent actions of a founding member they publicly disowned years ago. The incident raises urgent questions about the limits of personal redemption and the lasting shadows cast by fractured relationships.
As the legal process unfolds, the music world watches a story where artistic achievement and alleged brutality collide, leaving a band’s legacy and a community’s trust in a state of profound uncertainty.
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