Morgan Wallen arrested for throwing chair from rooftop bar in Nashville : NPR

Nation music star Morgan Wallen attending the CMA Awards in Nashville in November 2023.

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Nation music star Morgan Wallen attending the CMA Awards in Nashville in November 2023.

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Nation music star Morgan Wallen was arrested on three felony counts of reckless endangerment and one misdemeanor depend of disorderly conduct early Monday in Nashville after he allegedly threw a chair from the rooftop of a bar Sunday night time. In line with the Metro Nashville Police Division, the chair landed on the road shut to 2 law enforcement officials.

Wallen was at fellow nation artist Eric Church’s new six-story bar, restaurant and dwell music venue known as Chief’s, which opened on Friday.

In February 2021, Wallen made a public apology after TMZ posted a video exhibiting him yelling a racial slur in Nashville. He was “suspended” by his file label, Massive Loud, and his music was briefly dropped by radio conglomerates and the nation music channel, CMT.

After that incident, nevertheless, Wallen’s reputation surged, and he went on to have one of many largest music hits of the 12 months; his album Harmful grew to become the primary nation music album in historical past to spend its first seven weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart.

Since then, he has continued to get pleasure from big chart success; this previous 12 months, his music “Final Night time” grabbed the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Scorching 100 year-end chart, and his album One Factor at a Time took the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 year-end chart.