Morgan Wallen, a country music singer, has been detained after allegedly throwing a chair from the rooftop of a recently opened six-story club in downtown Nashville.
Metro Nashville Police stated that Wallen, 30, was booked into jail early Monday on three felony counts of reckless endangerment and one misdemeanour offence of disorderly conduct.
A chair was hurled from the rooftop of Chief’s Bar and landed on Broadway near two police officers, prompting the accusations.
According to the arrest affidavit, the chair landed about 3 feet (1 metre) from cops, who spoke with witnesses and watched security footage. Witnesses informed police that they saw Wallen take up a chair, throw it over the roof, and laugh about it.
Worrick Robinson, Wallen’s attorney, confirmed the singer’s arrest late Sunday and claimed she was completely cooperating with police. He was freed from detention and has a court appointment planned for May 3.
Wallen is one of the most well-known figures in our country. His third studio album, “One Thing at a Time” (2023), was the best-selling album in the United States last year.
It spent 16 weeks at the top of the Billboard 200 in 2023, which means he was at No. 1 for 30% of the year, more than any other album since Adele’s “21” dominated over ten years earlier.
It had numerous top ten Billboard Hot 100 successes, including “Last Night,” “You Proof,” “Thinkin’ Bout Me,” “Thought You Should Know,” and “Don’t Think Jesus.”
After video surfaced of him uttering a racial slur, the country artist was suspended indefinitely by his label and his songs was removed from radio stations and streaming services in 2021.
As a result, he was disqualified or limited from various award shows and did not earn any Grammy nominations for his best-selling “Dangerous: The Double Album”.
He was arrested in 2020 for public intoxication and disorderly conduct after being booted out of Kid Rock’s downtown Nashville bar.
Wallen claimed on social media that he and several friends were “horse-playing” after a few pub stops.
“We didn’t mean any harm, and we want to say sorry to any bar staff or anyone that was affected,” Wallen posted on X. “Thank you to the local authorities for being so professional and doing their job with class. Love y’all.”
