Dalton Eatherly, the Tennessee streamer who goes by ChudTheBuilder, was outside Montgomery County court in Clarksville on May 13, 2026, for a debt hearing. A confrontation started in Millennium Plaza. Shots were fired. Two men went to hospitals.

District Attorney Robert Nash said Eatherly opened fire. Officials also said he appeared to hit his own arm while doing it. Eatherly asked paramedics on the livestream whether he had shot himself or only been grazed. A responder said the wound went through.

The other man, identified in later reports as Joshua Fox, a 31-year-old disabled Army veteran, was flown to Vanderbilt in Nashville. He was listed as stable. Eatherly went by ambulance to Vanderbilt Clarksville. The photo on this graphic is that ride: suit jacket, stretcher, Kennedy Law awning, “JESUS” on the door.

Eatherly’s story on the stream: a man pointed and laughed, warned him not to start with racial slurs, then hit him. “He started wailing on me, even after I had to defend myself.” He blamed “rich people” for putting a bounty on his head. He said he tried to walk away.

He is known for IRL videos that use racial slurs to provoke people on camera. That history is why a crowd was already watching him at the courthouse. It is also why supporters immediately framed the shooting as stand-your-ground and why critics framed it as a streamer who brought a gun to a fight he helped start.

Charges filed that night: attempted murder, employing a firearm during a dangerous felony, aggravated assault, reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon. Bond started at $1.25 million and was later cut to $1 million. A GiveSendGo he had opened after losing work jumped past $150,000 after the clip spread. His meme coin jumped with it.

Self-defense is his claim. The DA’s first statement is that he is the one who fired. A jury, if it gets that far, will have to sort the punch from the shots. The graphic is the aftermath on the sidewalk, not the verdict.