Chud The Builder is at the center of a Tennessee courthouse shooting story that just spilled into a fast moving online fundraiser this week. The fundraiser, run by the family of the man he is accused of shooting, has crossed 92 percent of its 75,000 dollar goal. Chud The Builder, whose real name is Dalton Eatherly, age 28, faced a Montgomery County judge on Friday morning.
Prosecutors stacked fresh felony counts on top of the original attempted criminal homicide charge. Bond was set at $1.25 million by General Session Court Judge Reid Poland III, citing how many bystanders were in the open courtyard when the shots went off.
For now, the fundraiser climb is the part everyone is watching. The victim, Joshua Fox is a disabled veteran out of Clarksville. Chud The Builder allegedly fired the rounds during a face to face confrontation in the courthouse plaza.
His wife Ni Fox launched the campaign, titled Standing with Josh and Family After the Shooting, on GoFundMe that evening. As of Friday afternoon it sat at 68,373 dollars raised against the 75,000 goal that the family originally posted.
What new charges does Chud The Builder face after the courthouse shooting?
The Chud The Builder bond hearing on Friday is where the prosecution dropped the new counts. The livestreamer now faces employing a firearm during a dangerous felony, plus aggravated assault and reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon. Those counts sit on top of the original attempted criminal homicide charge.
As per the Montgomery County Sheriff Office, the firearm enhancement carries a mandatory six year minimum if a jury convicts him at trial. Attempted criminal homicide alone carries 15 to 60 years in a Tennessee state penitentiary, the judge said in open court on Friday.
He was in a Montgomery County Jail jumpsuit for the hearing. He closed his eyes for a long stretch the moment the judge read the bond figure out loud.
It all went down around 1:20 p.m. on Wednesday, May 13, 2026, outside the Montgomery County Courthouse in Clarksville. Per the arrest warrant, Chud The Builder squared up at Fox in what cops call a bladed stance. He reached into his jacket pocket for the gun, and the two were tangled inside seconds.
Cops have already pulled the surveillance footage, and it shows a stray round bouncing off a nearby wall while random bystanders stood right there in range. Fox got airlifted up to Vanderbilt for emergency surgery.
Chud The Builder himself was wounded in the same exchange and they hurried him to a different hospital. His next court date is May 26 for the preliminary hearing. Attorney Jake Fendley, who has worked Eatherly cases in the past, got the appointment to stand up for Chud The Builder.
How close is the Joshua Fox GoFundMe to its target so far?
Open the GoFundMe page and you will see the donation meter sitting at around 68,373 dollars against the 75,000 dollar goal at the time of writing. The fundraiser was started by Ni Fox, the wife of the man he is accused of shooting, less than 48 hours after the courthouse incident.
In her note on the page, she wrote that Josh was hit in the stomach and the shoulder. She added that he is currently in stable condition, and that he is already a disabled veteran living with other medical conditions. The couple also has children, and she flagged that she may need to be away from work for an unknown stretch ahead.
Donor activity has stayed steady through the week, with about 2,200 contributors logged by Friday evening per the page counter. The single biggest donation came in at 1,500 dollars from a contributor listed only as Jidon Adams, with the rest stacked underneath.
Smaller waves of 100 dollar gifts and under have done the bulk of the work on the page. GoFundMe has tagged the campaign as donation protected under its Giving Guarantee policy for donors.
Meanwhile, Chud The Builder has a separate Nashville criminal case from May 9. He allegedly refused to pay a 371 dollar restaurant bill and was charged with theft of services.
Stay locked on SoapCentral for more on the Chud The Builder case as that May 26 preliminary hearing rolls in.
Edited by Subho Mukhopadhyay