Dalton Eatherly, “Chud the Builder,” Posts $1 Million Bond and Leaves Montgomery County Jail. The Attempted-Murder Case Is Not Over. A Grand Jury Still Has to Speak.

Clarksville, Tennessee. Early August 2026. After roughly two months inside — Clarksville Now said nearly three — the Montgomery County Jail confirmed Dalton Levi Eatherly, 28, walked out. TMZ: Monday morning release, $1 million bond, ten separate bonding companies at $100,000 of liability each, Eatherly putting up the typical 10 percent. That structure was not a flourish. Judge William Goodman III had capped what any one company could carry so the million could not hide behind a single shop.

He is home under rules, not cleared.

What he is charged with

The May 13, 2026 incident outside the Montgomery County Courthouse is the file that matters. District attorneys in the 19th Judicial District say a confrontation with Joshua Fox ended with both men shot. Fox has been described in local coverage as a disabled veteran, wounded in the stomach and shoulder. Eatherly was also hit; he has said in prior statements that he was jumped and fired in self-defense, and that he shot himself in the chaos. Those are competing stories. A jury, if the grand jury true-bills the case, is where they get tested.

The charge sheet local outlets listed: attempted (criminal) homicide / attempted murder, employing a firearm during a dangerous felony, aggravated assault, reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon. At the first appearance Judge H. Reid Poland III talked sentencing ranges that run into decades on the top count if a conviction ever lands. Poland first set bond at $1.25 million, then $1 million, in part because Eatherly was already out on bond in other cases. The shooting file was bound over to the grand jury. Release is not an indictment dying. It is a man sleeping at an approved address while paper moves.

The conditions that came with the million

Goodman’s June 3 reset kept the number and stacked the leash:

- Curfew 9:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. at the approved residence.

- GPS ankle monitor, live tracking against that address and that clock.

- No weapons — firearms, ammunition, body armor, “weapons of any kind” in the recaps.

- Gag on the case. He is barred from livestreaming or posting about the facts of this shooting, the case, or the people in it, and from sitting for interviews about the pending attempted-murder file. The user’s note that he can still livestream in general matches how these orders are often drawn: the camera can go back on; the courthouse chapter cannot be the show.

- Passport applications halted or pulled.

Poland had also flagged crowdfunding: money raised after May 13 could not automatically go to bond without a sourcing look in Circuit Court. GiveSendGo and supporter drives were part of the public noise around the defense; treat any six-figure total as campaign accounting, not a receipt the clerk stamped. Ten bond shops splitting a million is how he actually left.

The other county

Davidson County is the second map. Days before the Clarksville shooting he was already in the Nashville paper for a steakhouse blow-up — a dine-and-dash allegation on a tab in the hundreds, a scene, a stream. Misdemeanors there are pending. A Nashville judge had revoked bond on those files in June after the Clarksville arrest, because new charges violated the old conditions. That is why “released in Montgomery” does not mean “done in Davidson.” Missed dates and revocation motions were already in the WSMV and later recap trail.

What this is not

It is not a verdict. It is not a documentary about his politics. His streams made him infamous for street confrontations and racist content; that archive is why the nickname travels and why AllHipHop wrote him up as a problem, not a folk hero. None of that substitutes for proof on May 13. Fox is a wounded man with a name, not a prop. Self-defense is a defense, not a finding. Attempted murder is a charge, not a confession.

Eatherly is 28, GPS’d, disarmed by court order, quiet on the facts of this case if he wants to stay out, and still looking at a grand jury and a second county. Two months in a jail and a million-dollar patchwork of bondsmen is expensive freedom. The expensive part that is left is the trial calendar. He can stream the rest of his life if the order allows it. He cannot stream his way out of Clarksville.