Brady Ebert Indicted on Attempted First-Degree Murder in Maryland
brady ebert has been indicted by a Montgomery County grand jury on attempted first-degree murder. The charge carries a potential life sentence. He was already facing earlier arrest charges tied to the March 29 confrontation at William Yates’ Silver Spring home.
March 29 in Silver Spring
According to Montgomery County police, Ebert drove to the Silver Spring, Maryland home of 79-year-old William Yates on March 29 and intentionally struck him with his car after yelling obscenities and honking his horn at Yates and other members of his family. Police had first arrested him in March on attempted second-degree murder and first-degree assault charges, and the indictment now pushes the case into a far more serious lane.
Turnstile and Ebert’s split
Ebert co-founded Turnstile in 2010 and stayed with the band until 2022, when it parted ways with him over what it described as “a consistent pattern of harmful behavior affecting himself, the band, and the community.” Earlier this year, he was fired from The S.E.T. after accusing Turnstile of misusing benefit show funds in a series of social media posts.
The legal dispute is tied to his former bandmate Brendan Yates’ family. Ebert told a district court commissioner, “This is pure self-defense. They’re the attackers.”
May 8 Court Date
Turnstile also folded William Yates into its public image last month, playing a video before its Coachella set in which he introduced the band and said, “I’m Bill Yates, I’m the proud father of Brendan. They’re all sons of mine.” He also said, “They’ve been practicing in the house for 13 years,” and, “Just recently they vacated the basement.”
Ebert is being held in the Montgomery County Correctional Facility without bail and is set to appear in court on May 8 for a scheduling conference. The indictment makes the immediate pressure simple: the case has moved beyond arrest allegations, and the potential sentence now sits at life imprisonment if prosecutors carry it through.
