Streamer known as 'Chud the Builder' involved in shooting outside courthouse, officials say
Rage-baiting livestreamer Dalton Eatherly, known online as "Chud the Builder," was involved in a shooting incident outside a courthouse in Tennessee on Wednesday, officials said.
He and another man sustained gunshot wounds during the shooting outside the Montgomery County Courthouse in Clarksville, according to the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office.
"The preliminary investigation revealed there was a confrontation between Dalton Eatherly, also known as 'Chud the Builder,' and an unknown male," District Attorney General Robert Nash, whose district covers Montgomery County, said in a statement.
"The confrontation resulted in gunfire, and both men were taken for medical treatment," Nash said.
Both men were transported to area hospitals in stable condition, according to the sheriff's office.
Eatherly, 28, was taken into custody and the incident remains under investigation, an official from the district attorney's office told ABC News.
"The District Attorney's General Office is reviewing the facts of the investigation by law enforcement for formal criminal charges," the office said in a statement.
Eatherly has made a social media presence by recording and livestreaming his racist confrontations with Black people and others while touting his constitutionally protected right to do so.
The shooting incident comes days after he was arrested in Nashville and charged with theft, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, according to court records.
He was arrested over the weekend for allegedly refusing to pay for $371.55 in food and drink from a restaurant at the Omni Hotel where he had been livestreaming, according to court records.
When restaurant staff asked him to stop livestreaming during the incident on Saturday, "he became disruptive and started making racial statements, yelling, screaming and otherwise creating a scene at the location," an affidavit filed in Davidson County Court stated.
Online court records do not list any attorney for Eatherly in that case.
