{"id":642349,"date":"2026-05-14T09:10:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T09:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/642349\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T09:10:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T09:10:18","slug":"livestreamer-chud-the-builder-involved-in-shooting-outside-tennessee-courthouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/642349\/","title":{"rendered":"Livestreamer \u2018Chud the Builder\u2019 involved in shooting outside Tennessee courthouse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Livestreamer \u201cChud the Builder\u201d was involved in a confrontation \u201cwith gunfire\u201d outside a Tennessee courthouse Wednesday, authorities said.<\/p>\n

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The controversial 28-year-old streamer, whose real name is Dalton Eatherly and who is known for using offensive racial language, was involved in a confrontation around 1:20 p.m. outside the Montgomery County Courthouse in Clarksville, District Attorney General Robert J. Nash of the 19th Judicial District said in a statement. <\/p>\n

The confrontation with an \u201cunknown male\u201d escalated to gunfire, Nash said. <\/p>\n

Both sustained gunshot wounds, the Montgomery County Sheriff\u2019s Office said. <\/p>\n

Eatherly was the person who opened fire, and he appeared to have shot himself in the arm, the news website Clarksville Now <\/a>reported, citing Nash.<\/p>\n

Law enforcement officers secured the scene, locked down the courthouse and took one person into custody, Nash said. <\/p>\n

The two people were taken to hospitals and are stable, the sheriff\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n

The incident is under investigation, and there\u2019s no threat to the public, according to the sheriff\u2019s office and Nash\u2019s office. <\/p>\n

Eatherly was scheduled to appear at the courthouse at 9 a.m. Wednesday as the defendant in a contract\/debt case, according to online dockets.<\/p>\n

Eatherly is a controversial online personality, known for posting \u201crage-bait\u201d content, repeatedly using racial slurs and challenging people to fight him.<\/p>\n

He was arrested Sunday in Nashville after he was alleged to have walked out on a restaurant bill and resisted arrest, according to court documents.<\/p>\n

In the alleged incident, Eatherly went to Bob\u2019s Steak & Chop House, where he was asked not to livestream. When he was caught streaming and was asked to stop, \u201che became disruptive and started making racial statements, yelling, screaming,\u201d a probable cause affidavit said. <\/p>\n

He also said, \u201cI\u2019m not paying if you are kicking me out,\u201d and refused to pay his $371.55 bill, according to the affidavit. He was charged with disorderly conduct and theft of services, it said.<\/p>\n

The next day, officers saw him walking down a street in Nashville and detained him on outstanding warrants, according to a separate affidavit. He pulled his arm away when officers tried to handcuff him, resulting in the resisting arrest charge, the affidavit said.<\/p>\n

He was released after he posted $5,000 bond, according to the court docket.<\/p>\n

No attorney for him in those cases was listed. He is due back in court on those charges on July 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Livestreamer \u201cChud the Builder\u201d was involved in a confrontation \u201cwith gunfire\u201d outside a Tennessee courthouse Wednesday, authorities said.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-642349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}