In 2022, Baltimore band Turnstile, on the cusp of rock stardom, announced founding member Brady Ebert was no longer in the group.

“Our love for him continues and we wish him nothing but the best moving forward,” Turnstile wrote on Instagram.

Things have changed drastically since. Ebert, 33, of Silver Spring, is accused of intentionally driving a car into Williams Yates, the father of lead singer Brendan Yates, and leaving the 79-year-old with severe trauma to his legs.

Ebert, Turnstile’s former lead guitarist, was taken into custody this week on charges of attempted second-degree murder and first-degree assault.

Turnstile, the Grammy Award-winning band that’s become the face of hardcore music, “cut ties” with Ebert due to “a consistent pattern of harmful behavior affecting himself, the band and the community,” the group said in a statement on Thursday. The split came a year after Turnstile broke into the mainstream with its acclaimed 2021 album “Glow On.”

Ebert “began threatening violence” around that time, and those threats “escalated further” over the past few months, the band said. This led Brendan Yates, drummer Daniel Fang and bassist Franz Lyons to obtain temporary peace orders against Ebert.

But Baltimore District Judge Carol M. Johnson later denied their requests for final peace orders, according to court records.

The tensions seem to have escalated from there.

Earlier this week, William Yates suffered serious injuries, including a broken leg, when he was hit outside of his home in Silver Spring, Montgomery County Police said.

Montgomery County District Court Judge Sherri D. Koch on Thursday ordered Ebert to be held without bond, describing the allegations as violent and targeted.

Ebert, appearing via video conference in dark jail scrubs, spoke multiple times against the recommendation of his attorney John Costello, proclaiming his innocence.

Montgomery County Police responded on March 29 to a home on Timberlake Drive, where officers discovered William Yates in the front yard with “trauma to his lower extremities.”

Yates family members told detectives that Ebert showed up at the home, honked his horn and yelled obscenities before he came back and drove into William Yates.

According to police, surveillance video shows William Yates warning his daughter and son-in-law that Ebert was coming.

When the guitarist swerved around the corner, William Yates backed up into the driveway to avoid getting hit, then threw a rock at Ebert’s car, police said.

Ebert reversed to make a sharp left into the driveway, striking William Yates as he tried to run away, according to police.

William Yates said that as he was on the ground waiting for first responders to arrive, Ebert came back and started to yell that he “deserved it,” police said.

Ebert and Brendan Yates have known each other since they were kids growing up in Montgomery County. A 2021 feature about Turnstile described its formation as “nothing more than a chance for Yates to reconnect with his childhood friend Ebert.”

Turnstile began in 2010 with Brendan Yates, Ebert, Fang, Lyons and guitarist Sean Cullen. Since then, the band has released four full-length albums and shuffled its lineup — Cullen and Ebert were replaced over time by Pat McCrory and Meg Mills, respectively.

Ebert — known in the hardcore community for writing catchy, fast-paced guitar riffs — told a district court commissioner that he’s made $18,000 so far this year, “because the band that pays me royalties is stealing from me.” In 2024, he faced the foreclosure of his Northeast Baltimore home on White Avenue, according to court records. The property later sold for $175,000.

In January, Ebert made headlines in rock circles after he criticized Turnstile for posting a photo of the “Abolish ICE” billboard in the Station North neighborhood in Baltimore.

“Lmao, no one in turnstile cares at all about ethics or social issues in general,” he wrote in a since-deleted Instagram comment, adding they’re “just pandering to their audience.” Ebert also said, without proof, he “watched” Brendan Yates steal money raised from a benefit concert.

Ebert’s new band, The S.E.T., then kicked him out of the group.

“We will not stand by his ridiculous comments and behavior toward the members of our band and our community,” The S.E.T. said in a since-deleted social media post. Che Figueroa, bassist of The S.E.T., declined to comment.

At his bond hearing, Ebert pleaded with the judge to watch surveillance video of the incident.

“I will 100% guarantee that it will contradict their statements,” Ebert said of the police and prosecutors’ narrative.

He also called William Yates a “maniac” who threw a rock at him.

But Assistant State’s Attorney Dominic Plantamura said William Yates was injured so badly a bone stuck out of his leg. Plantamura said video of the incident showed that it was a “clearly targeted attack,” adding that Williams Yates is lucky he wasn’t more seriously injured.

At MedStar Washington Hospital Center, police said, William Yates told investigators that Ebert had been causing problems for his family since being fired from the band. Police said he reported that Ebert had been “taunting them for a long time” and that his behavior had been escalating.

William Yates recounted a March 13 incident in which he was walking in the neighborhood and Ebert pulled up, started yelling obscenities and drove toward him.

Ebert narrowly missed hitting William Yates, according to the account, and gave him the middle finger.

Costello argued his client be released with electronic monitoring. He acknowledged that Ebert had a contentious history with his former bandmate, but added, “That does not, in this instance, warrant extra detention.”

Ebert is a “successful, self-employed” musician with no criminal history who lives with his father, Costello said.

On Thursday afternoon, both Ebert’s and William Yates’ Silver Spring homes appeared empty.

In its statement, Turnstile said William Yates had undergone successful surgery and the band was “hoping for the best possible outcome in his recovery.”

“We have no language left for Brady,” the band said.

Banner photojournalist Kaitlin Newman contributed to this story.

This story has been updated.