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

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 accordance with the Metro Nashville Police Department, 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 reside music venue referred to as Chief’s, which opened on Friday.

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

After that incident, nonetheless, Wallen’s reputation surged, and he went on to have one of many greatest music hits of the 12 months; his album Harmful turned 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 take pleasure in big chart success; this previous 12 months, his music “Final Evening” 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.