Ex-Turnstile Guitarist Brady Ebert Charged with Attempted Murder After Allegedly Running Over His Former Bandmate's Father
Ex-Turnstile Guitarist Brady Ebert Charged with Attempted Murder After Allegedly Running Over His Former Bandmate's Father
Rachel DeSantisThu, April 2, 2026 at 7:13 PM UTC
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Brady Ebert performing with Turnstile in Chicago in September 2019.Credit: Daniel DeSlover/ZUMA Wire/Shutterstock -
Brady Ebert allegedly struck his former Turnstile bandmate's father with his car
Turnstile cut ties with Ebert in 2022 citing harmful behavior and escalating threats of violence
Ebert is being held without bond after being charged with attempted second-degree murder and first-degree assault
Brady Ebert, the founding guitarist of the Grammy-winning rock band Turnstile, has been arrested and charged with attempted murder after he allegedly ran over the 79-year-old father of his former bandmate Brendan Yates.
Ebert, who left Turnstile in 2022, was arrested in Silver Spring, Md. on Monday, March 30, one day after he allegedly left William Yates with “severe trauma to both of his legs.” Ebert was charged with two felonies: attempted second-degree murder and first-degree assault, according to court records viewed by PEOPLE.
Montgomery County police officers responded to a report of a pedestrian struck at a residential address on March 29, according to an application for statement of charges obtained by PEOPLE. Yates’ family told police that he’d been intentionally hit with a vehicle driven by “a neighbor and past friend of the family.”
Ebert, 33, and Brendan Yates, 36, grew up down the street from one another, and formed Turnstile together in 2010.
According to the documents, William Yates’ daughter alleged that Ebert pulled up to her house while she was outside with her husband and children “honking his horn at them and yelling obscenities.”
Brady Ebert performing in Sacramento, Calif. in November 2021.Credit: Tim Mosenfelder/Getty
She said Ebert left but came back, and she grabbed her 3-year-old son to avoid being struck by the musician.
A detective assigned to the case went to the hospital to speak with Yates and his family, who said Ebert has “been causing issues” with them since his departure from the band.
“William Yates advised that Brady Ebert has been taunting them for a long time but that his behavior has been escalating,” the docs said, noting that Yates also alleged that Ebert returned to the scene and told him he “deserved it.”
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The guitarist was eventually found by police at a nearby shopping center, and is being held without bond in Montgomery County. He appeared at a court hearing on Thursday, April 2.
The office of Ebert’s attorney Andrew D. Alpert declined to comment when reached by PEOPLE.
(L-R) Franz Lyons, Pat McCrory, Daniel Fang, Brendan Yates and Brady Ebert on Late Night with Seth Myers in 2021.Credit: Lloyd Bishop/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty
In a statement shared with Rolling Stone, Turnstile — singer Brendan Yates, guitarists Pat McCrory and Meg Mills, bassist Franz Lyons and drummer Daniel Fang — said they “cut ties” with Ebert in 2022 “in response to a consistent pattern of harmful behavior affecting himself, the band, and the community.”
“After exhausting every available resource to support his access to help and recovery, a boundary ultimately had to be set when healthy communication was no longer possible and he began threatening violence,” the statement read. “In the years since, his baseless tirades have continued in public. We never addressed it. We chose to protect his privacy and the circumstances around his departure, even when he did nothing to be deserving of that protection. Over the past few months, his threats only escalated further.”
The statement continued: “This past week, that violence led to a physical attack when Brady went to the house of Brendan’s parents and used his vehicle to run over Brendan’s father, causing severe physical trauma. We are grateful that Mr. Yates survived, has successfully undergone surgery, and we’re hoping for the best possible outcome in his recovery. We have no language left for Brady. Please respect our privacy in this time.”
Following his departure from Turnstile, Ebert joined the group The S.E.T., though the band announced his firing in February. The group said in a since-deleted post that they “will not stand by his ridiculous comments and behavior toward the members of our band and our community.”
Turnstile released its first album without Ebert, Never Enough, in June 2025. The group won Best Rock Album and Best Metal Performance at the 2026 Grammy Awards in February.
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