Turnstile has made a statement regarding its former guitarist Brady Ebert’s startling recent arrest, as per theprp. In 2022, the 33-year-old musician was supposedly removed from Turnstile due to a peace order. Overnight, word leaked out that Ebert had been taken into custody on March 31st for first-degree assault and attempted second-degree murder. Since then, it has been claimed that Ebert is currently suspected of purposefully running over William Yates, the 79-year-old father of Turnstile musician Brendan Yates, injuring his legs and necessitating surgery. According to police accounts, the incident happened on William’s land.
Turnstile cut ties with Brady 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.
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.
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.
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In recent months, Ebert had been more publicly hostile of his former Turnstile bandmates on social media, and in the weeks that followed, more disparaging remarks about them frequently surfaced on his platforms. Ebert’s new band sacked him. The S.E.T. in February of last year, following criticism from his bandmates regarding “his ridiculous comments and behavior toward the members of our band and our community.“