Country Music Star Stops Show Over an Alleged Assault
At a recent concert at the Colorado State Fair, country music star Scotty McCreery intervened after witnessing a man hit a woman in the crowd. During the performance, McCreery stopped the music and called out the alleged assailant, expressing outrage and describing the act as cowardly. He urged the crowd to assist authorities in identifying the individual responsible. As security responded, attendees voiced their discontent, booing and chanting for the man to leave. The woman, who was evaluated by paramedics onsite, declined further medical assistance. Although potential criminal charges against the man were referred to prosecutors, he was not arrested at the event.
Criminal charges are being considered for a man suspected of hitting a woman during a concert at the Colorado State Fair, authorities said Thursday, in an incident that prompted country music star Scotty McCreery to abruptly stop his show and call out the alleged assailant from the stage.
“Right here, right here,” McCreery says in video from the event, as he points into the crowd and the band stops playing. “That’s a lady you just hit sir. Absolutely not. Who just hit the lady?”
The singer from North Carolina — who gained fame as a teenager appearing on the television show American Idol — called for police and security and asked if the woman was OK.
People could be heard booing and chanting as officials responded during the Saturday concert in Pueblo, Colorado.
McCreery, 30, urged the crowd to let authorities know who was responsible. He said that hitting a woman was the “definition of a coward” and told the alleged assailant to “get the heck out of here” before the show resumed.
The woman was evaluated on-site by paramedics and declined to be taken by ambulance to a hospital, said Olga Robak with the Colorado Agriculture Department.
Potential criminal charges were referred to prosecutors, but the man was not arrested, Robak said.
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