Turnstile have shared a statement following the arrest of their former guitarist Brady Ebert who is facing charges of second-degree attempted murder and first-degree assault. The incident in question involves the father of the band’s frontman Brendan Yates.

Ebert split with the group in 2022 and, as Rolling Stone reports, the band have shared in a statement that the former member allegedly “used his vehicle to run over Brendan’s father [William Yates], causing severe physical trauma.” They add that Yates survived and “has successfully undergone surgery, and we’re hoping for the best possible outcome in his recovery.”

They continue, “Turnstile cut ties with Brady Ebert in 2022 in response to a consistent pattern of harmful behavior 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.”

“In the years since, his 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.”

According to court documents, police responded to a report of a pedestrian struck on Timberlake Drive in Maryland on March 29. William Yate’s daughter, Ering Gerber and her husband Christopher Gerger were getting their kids from the car to go into the house when Ebert drove up to their house “honking his horn and yelling obscenities.” 

William Yates can be seen in a neighbour’s security video coming down the driveway of the home to warn the couple that Ebert was approaching the house in his car.  The documents say, according to this local news outlet, that “Ebert swerved toward Yates in the driveway, who backed up to avoid being hit and threw a rock at Ebert. Ebert backed up into the driveway before making a sharp turn to hit Yates before making another turn towards Erin Gerber and her 3-year-old son before driving away. Yates was severely injured on both of his legs.”

Ebert was a co-founding member of Turnstile in 2010 and was present with the group through to their mainstream breakthrough ‘Glow On’ before departing in 2022. His follow-up project, The S.E.T., released their debut EP, ‘Self Evident Truth’, in March, although he was fired from that group earlier this year.