Dalton Eatherly Gets $1.25 Million Bond in Streamer Case

Dalton Eatherly, a streamer known for posting racist videos, was given a $1.25 million preliminary bond on Friday after being charged with attempted murder and other charges in a shooting outside the Montgomery County Courthouse. The 28-year-old is accused of firing multiple times during a daylight altercation in Clarksville, Tennessee.

Montgomery County Courthouse

An affidavit filed with the arrest warrant says Eatherly and another man “engaged in a verbal altercation” at about 1:19 p.m. Wednesday outside the courthouse. It says that “During this verbal altercation, Mr. Eatherly turned his body in a bladed stance... and reached for his firearm located in his right jacket pocket. Thereafter, a physical altercation ensued.”

The same affidavit says Eatherly then fired and struck the other man multiple times. The injured man was taken by helicopter to a hospital in Nashville, where he underwent emergency surgery and was later reported in stable condition after surgery.

Several innocent bystanders

Police said the scene outside the courthouse included “several innocent bystanders” when Eatherly fired his gun. That detail makes the case more than a single-person confrontation: it put people waiting or passing nearby inside the range of a public shooting in the middle of the day.

Eatherly, who goes by the moniker Chud the Builder, now faces a bond amount that signals how seriously the court is treating the case at this stage. The charge, the courthouse location, and the bystanders together make this one of those cases where the legal fallout is already extending well beyond the two men in the affidavit.