Robert’s Western World Door Man Assaulted, Suspects Sought
UPDATE: The primary suspect has been identified as Shane Fogle.
Disturbing video caught a group of men assaulting the doorman at Robert’s Western World late Thursday night (6-20) in front of the establishment on Lower Broadway in Nashville. Robert’s is asking the public to share the information and see if the alleged perpetrators can be named and brought to justice.
“We need your help Nashville!” Robert’s said on social media. “You’ve done it before and asking for your help again in catching the low life scum that were denied entry to Robert’s Western World for obvious intoxication and ill behavior. They didn’t like being told no and decided to assault our door personnel.”
Video (see below) clearly shows the assault.
“Group of four men, but specifically the gentleman wearing the black polo, that so cooperatively posed for a photo before punching, then kicking our door guy in the head while he was on the ground as his buddies held our guy down,” Robert’s says.
In the video, the man in the black polo can be seen talking to the door man before punching him in the face. Then as the door man lunges or punches forward, another man joins in while the man in the black polo kicks the door man. Two other men are also involved, but it’s difficult to ascertain if they are also part of the assault, or are trying to pull the two other men off of Robert’s door man.
A report from the Metro Nashville Police Department obtained by Saving Country Music states,
On Thursday night, a man working security at Roberts Western World reported to an officer that he was assaulted at 10:55 p.m. outside the business. The victim stated he was assaulted by two unknown males while working security at the front door. He stated that he refused entry to one of the men because he was visibly intoxicated. The man stated, “I’ll go ahead and knock you out right now,” then proceeded to suddenly punch the security victim in the left eye. The victim stated he punched the man back in self-defense. A second man placed the victim in a choke hold and had him on the ground. The man who threw the punch then kicked the victim in the left side while he was on the ground. Three other men who were with assault suspects 1 and 2 pulled them off of the victim and the whole group walked off westbound on Broadway. The victim refused medical aid for his injuries.
“It’s very unfortunate that this happened because we’re a family run business,” Robert’s employee Caroline tells Saving Country Music. “All of our employees have been here for many years. JesseLee [Jones] and Emily are amazing people to work for. And it’s just really sad for all of us that work here.”
Robert’s is known as one of the last true honky tonks in Nashville Lower Broadway tourist corridor, regularly featuring traditional country music artists and supporting up-and-coming talent.
“CASH reward for the positive ID of any one of these individuals, specifically the trash in the black polo!!!” Robert’s says. “Please share and help us catch them while they’re in town!!!”
June 21, 2024 @ 10:53 am
Morgan Wallen. I’ll contact them for the reward.
June 21, 2024 @ 10:56 am
Does Morgan Wallen have an alibi?
Joking aside hopefully justice will be served swiftly. Love Roberts.
June 21, 2024 @ 11:57 am
What’s worse is people just watching it, but then again it’s Broadway. What a POS great value Tob Schnieder is
June 21, 2024 @ 12:05 pm
Such a shame. When I last went to Nashville they definitely had the friendliest staff on broadway.
June 21, 2024 @ 12:20 pm
The way that area of Nashville caters to people just getting hammered, I am surprised this doesn’t happen more often. Drunk stoopid people. I’m all for having a good time, but some people are just assholes. And there are lots of them out there.
June 21, 2024 @ 12:29 pm
Robert’s is one of the few places where we go when we visit in Nashville, and being an old poop, I choose to go with my wife during the day rather then face what Broadway has become at night. Roberts is such a wonderful place, great traditional Country music, and can’t beat the “recession special” either.
May justice prevail and these troublemakers be apprehended and prosecuted. With all the drinking and potential for trouble at night, you’d think that there would be quite a police presence on Broadway. And I believe there is a small Police station directly across the street next to Ernest Tubb’s Record Shop (or whats left of it).
June 21, 2024 @ 1:09 pm
I thought the middle-aged guy in the black polo was the vicitim, He’s the assailant?
C’mon. He’s not even trying to hide. There must be ten people who’ve ID’d him already.
And anybody over 40 who “settles” run-of-the-mill disputes by sucker punching adversaries in the face, probably has done time or at least has an arrest record. So the police should be able to confirm that thug’s ID from the video and facial recongnition search in about 5 minutes.
June 21, 2024 @ 2:26 pm
Bozo. He will be caught. Hopefully he faces some time away to meditate on his poor life decisions. Alcohol affects people differently, some get friendly, some get drowsy like me, some get surly, some get super chatty, and then you have the lunatics like this moron.
Roberts has bouncers who look like regular guys, not the gorilla stereotype, and that’s by design. Usually they handle things very calmly and 95% of the time it works out. This imbecile is the wild card, and makes me wish on that night Robert’s had an MMA fighter on duty. Would have been a much better outcome to see over- the- top tourist drunkie take a smack down.
June 21, 2024 @ 5:56 pm
Fucking scumbags.
June 21, 2024 @ 9:16 pm
Nasvhille needs to get tougher on crime. There are too many thugs roaming around downtown. And south nashville and Antioch is like a third world country. Waffle House restaurants in Davidson country are take-out only after 9pm now because of crime.
June 22, 2024 @ 11:15 am
Between 2003 and 2018 I spent a great deal of time in Nashville. Broadway was fun in the early days, but in a little over a decade it turned into a very unpleasant place to be. I eventually stopped going. The last time I stepped foot on the strip was in October 2018, I went down with friends who had only been in the city once before. It was a madhouse, one lane on either side of the street was blocked off because there were so many people spilling out everywhere.
June 23, 2024 @ 11:33 am
That sucks. I recently spent a fortnight in Nashville, much of that spent checking out the bars, and the doormen at places like Roberts and Layla’s were super cool. With a picture that clear the dude is screwed for sure.
June 23, 2024 @ 11:40 am
Ah I see there’s been a positive ID – Shane Fogle. Let’s hope your penalties are a little stiffer than here in the UK.