Morgan Wallen arrested after throwing chair from rooftop of Nashville bar, police say
Country star Morgan Wallen was arrested on reckless endangerment charges after throwing a chair from the rooftop of a six-story bar in the popular Broadway district of Nashville, Tennessee, on Sunday night, police said.
Country star Morgan Wallen was arrested on reckless endangerment charges after throwing a chair from the rooftop of a six-story bar in the popular Broadway district of Nashville, Tennessee, on Sunday night, police said.
Wallen, 30, was booked early Monday on three counts of felony reckless endangerment and one count of misdemeanor disorderly conduct, the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department said.
He was at country singer Eric Church's new bar, Chief's, and the chair fell close to two police officers on Broadway, police said.
Video from the rooftop showed Wallen “lunging and throwing an object over the roof,” according to his arrest affidavit. Witnesses also told police they were standing to the right of Wallen and “observed him pick up the chair and throw it over him, laughing afterward,” the affidavit said.
He was arrested around 12:30 a.m. Monday. His bond was set at $15,250 and he was released around 3:30 a.m., online Davidson County Jail records show.
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