Chud The Builder faces attempted murder charges after Clarksville shootout
Dalton Eatherly, known as chud the builder, faces attempted murder charges after a shootout outside a Tennessee courthouse on May 13, 2026. The 28-year-old Kick streamer was involved in a confrontation outside 2 Millennium Plaza in Clarksville that quickly turned into gunfire, according to the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office.
District Attorney Robert J. Nash said Eatherly faces severe felony charges, including attempted murder and employing a firearm during a dangerous felony. Both men were wounded in the exchange, and Eatherly was later transported to the Montgomery County Jail after medical stabilization.
2 Millennium Plaza
The confrontation involved Eatherly and an unidentified Black man, and it escalated rapidly into an exchange of gunfire outside the courthouse. Eatherly was loaded into an ambulance with visible arm injuries, while the other man was airlifted to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville.
The case pushes Eatherly from online notoriety into a violent criminal proceeding. He had worked in the construction sector and operated a local contracting business in Clarksville before becoming known as a streamer.
Kick and May 2026
Eatherly launched his channel on Kick in 2025 and branded himself a “free speech patriot.” Kick permanently banned him in May 2026 and stripped his monetization, and he later launched a meme coin on the Pump.fun network after losing that revenue stream.
The courthouse shooting came days after Eatherly was arrested in Nashville for causing a disturbance at a local steakhouse while livestreaming. That sequence places the May 13 encounter at the center of a broader criminal case, with Nash saying the charges include attempted murder and employing a firearm during a dangerous felony.
Before streaming, Eatherly’s name surfaced after a highly publicized road rage incident in early 2024 involving a Black woman, during which he was accused of using racial slurs. That background does not explain the charges on May 13, but it does show how his public profile moved from streaming and platform bans into a jail case tied to gunfire outside a courthouse.
