Morgan Wallen was arrested after throwing a chair off the roof of a Nashville bar, police said

Country music star Morgan Wallen was arrested on a reckless endangerment charge after he threw a chair from the roof of a six-story bar in Nashville's popular Broadway district Sunday night, police said.

Whalen, 30, was booked early Monday on three counts of felony reckless endangerment and one count of misdemeanor disorderly conduct, police said. subwayPolitan nashville police to divide He said.

He was at country singer Eric Church's new bar, and the chair fell near two police officers on Broadway, police said.

Video footage from the roof showed Wallen “rushing and throwing something over the roof,” according to his arrest affidavit. Witnesses also told police they were standing to Wallen's right and “observed him pick up the chair and throw it on top of him while then laughing,” the affidavit said.

He was arrested around 12:30 a.m. on Monday. His bail was set at $15,250 and he was released about 3:30 a.m., online Davidson County Jail records show.

His attorney, Warrick Robinson, told NBC News that Wallen is “fully cooperating with authorities” after his arrest.

Chief's, two blocks from the iconic Ryman Auditorium, was celebrating its grand opening this weekend.

It was not possible to obtain immediate comment from representatives of the church and the union.

Wallen, one of the biggest names in the country, was temporarily suspended from the job in 2021 when he was caught on video screaming racial slurs outside his Tennessee home after a night of partying in Nashville.

“There's no excuse. I've never made an excuse. I'll never make an excuse,” Wallen told Billboard in an interview two years after the controversy that nearly derailed his career.

In 2020, he was chosen as a musician on “Saturday Night Live” after he earned his Seen in TikTok videos Partying without a mask and kissing women, putting him at risk of contracting Covid during the pandemic.