Turnstile … (from left) Brady Ebert, Daniel Fang (at the back), Franz Lyons, Pat McCrory and Brendan Yates. Photograph: Jimmy FontaineView image in fullscreenTurnstile … (from left) Brady Ebert, Daniel Fang (at the back), Franz Lyons, Pat McCrory and Brendan Yates. Photograph: Jimmy FontaineEx-Turnstile guitarist charged with attempted second-degree murder of frontman’s fatherBrady Ebert, a former member of the Grammy-winning US hardcore band, allegedly hit the father of Brendan Yates with his car
Brady Ebert, the former guitarist of the Grammy-winning US hardcore band Turnstile, has been charged with attempted second-degree murder after allegedly hitting the father of the band’s frontman, Brendan Yates, with his car.
On 29 March, police found William Yates outside his home with “trauma to his lower extremities”, with a broken bone protruding from his leg, according to the Baltimore Banner.
Yates’s family members said that Ebert drove up to the house, honked and swore, then drove off, before returning. According to police, Yates threw a rock at his car and Ebert drove into him as he attempted to run away. Ebert allegedly returned an additional time to tell Yates that he “deserved it”.
Ebert, 33, was arrested and taken into custody on 31 March. He is also charged with one count of first-degree assault, according to Montgomery County arrest records, and is being held without bond.
In court, Ebert protested his innocence and insisted that surveillance footage of the incident would “contradict” his accusers’ statements. But Montgomery County district court judge Sherri D Koch described the alleged attack as violent and targeted.
The band told Pitchfork that William Yates is recovering from surgery to treat “severe physical trauma” to his legs, and expressed their gratitude at his survival.
Ebert was a founding member of Turnstile, formed in 2010, and a childhood friend of Brendan Yates. He left the band in 2022.
In their statement, the band explained that they had cut ties with Ebert “in response to a consistent pattern of harmful behaviour affecting himself, the band, and the community. After exhausting every available resource to support his access to help and recovery, a boundary ultimately had to be set when healthy communication was no longer possible and he began threatening violence.”
Read moreLast year Ebert formed a band called the Self-Evident Truth, but was ejected from the group after posting allegations about Turnstile’s finances and claiming that its members had taken out a restraining order against him. In August 2022, the district court of Maryland denied a request for a peace order against Ebert by a former bandmate, saying there was “no statutory basis for relief”.
Turnstile’s statement continued: “In the years since, [Ebert’s] baseless tirades have continued in public. We never addressed it. We chose to protect his privacy and the circumstances around his departure, even when he did nothing to be deserving of that protection. Over the past few months, his threats only escalated further.
“We have no language left for Brady,” they said, asking for privacy.
The Baltimore-based band are the most successful hardcore group of their generation, with two Grammy awards and eight nominations to their name. Their fourth album, 2025’s Never Enough, reached No 9 in the US and No 11 in the UK. It was their first full-length record without Ebert, instead featuring Meg Mills on guitar. It also featured guest appearances from Hayley Williams of Paramore, Dev Hynes (AKA Blood Orange), Shabaka Hutchings, Faye Webster and producer AG Cook.
