The violence escalated from threats to assault. Former Turnstile guitarist Brady Ebert has been arrested and charged with attempted second-degree murder after allegedly using his car to run over the father of the band’s lead singer.
The 33-year-old musician was taken into custody on March 31 in Montgomery County, Maryland. He is being held without bond.
The incident unfolded on March 29 at approximately 4:41 p.m. on a quiet residential street in Silver Spring, Maryland. Police say Ebert drove to the home of William Yates, the 79-year-old father of Turnstile frontman Brendan Yates.
According to charging documents, Ebert arrived honking his horn and yelling obscenities. As William Yates walked up his driveway, the former Turnstile guitarist allegedly accelerated his 2001 Buick and made a sharp turn to strike the elderly man.
A neighbor’s surveillance camera captured the entire attack. The footage shows Ebert swerving toward Yates, then putting the car in reverse before accelerating again and driving onto the front lawn to hit him.
William Yates suffered severe trauma to both legs and a broken leg. He underwent surgery and is expected to survive .
Family members told police that Ebert had been harassing the Yates family since his departure from Turnstile in 2022. His behavior had been escalating, including another incident earlier in March where he allegedly drove at Yates and narrowly missed him.
After striking William Yates, Ebert fled the scene without calling 911 or providing aid. Police later found his Buick abandoned with front-end damage.
The band released a detailed statement explaining that they cut ties with Ebert in 2022 “in response to a consistent pattern of harmful behavior”.
“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 band wrote .
Turnstile said Ebert’s “baseless tirades” continued for years, and over the past few months, his threats escalated further. The band concluded: “We have no language left for Brady”.
Ebert was a founding member of Turnstile, which formed in Baltimore in 2010. He played on the band’s first three albums before leaving in 2022 . His attorney has declined to comment on the charges.
