{"id":679825,"date":"2026-03-25T03:39:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T03:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/679825\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T03:39:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T03:39:12","slug":"alan-ritchson-wont-face-criminal-charges-after-alleged-neighbor-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/679825\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Ritchson Won&#8217;t Face Criminal Charges After Alleged Neighbor Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/alan-ritchson\/\" id=\"auto-tag_alan-ritchson\" data-tag=\"alan-ritchson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alan Ritchson<\/a> won\u2019t face criminal charges after an alleged physical dispute between the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/reacher\/\" id=\"auto-tag_reacher\" data-tag=\"reacher\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reacher<\/a>\u201d star and his Tennessee neighbor, the Brentwood Police Department, which was investigating the altercation, announced in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cAfter reviewing available evidence, including video footage and witness statements, authorities determined that no criminal charges will be pursued. Mr. Ritchson\u2019s actions were found to be in self-defense,\u201d Brentwood Police Captain Steven Pepin said in a statement to <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/alan-ritchson-wont-face-criminal-charges-neighbor-fight-self-defense-11933584\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Entertainment Weekly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tPepin explained that a \u201creckless endangerment charge was considered,\u201d but Ritchson \u201cdeclined to pursue charges\u201d against his neighbor. He added that \u201cthe case is now closed, and no further action will be taken.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn an interview with TMZ, which <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/03\/22\/alan-ritchson-punches-neighbor\/\">first reported the conflict<\/a>, Ritchson\u2019s neighbor, Ronnie Taylor, said the quarrel started to bubble over on Saturday morning, when he \u201cheard this [incessant] revving\u201d from the actor\u2019s motorcycle. Then on Sunday afternoon, Ritchson came around again on his bike, along with his two children. After Ritchson rounded the block two times, Taylor allegedly went to confront the \u201cWar Machine\u201d star.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cHe rode past once, twice. On the second time, I walked outside in front of him and said, \u2018You\u2019ve got to stop,&#8217;\u201d Taylor recalled to TMZ.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe video of the fight appears to show Ritchson hitting Taylor, who is on the ground, trying to return to his feet. Sources close to Ritchson told TMZ that the actor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/03\/23\/reacher-star-alan-ritchson-tennessee-altercation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">did not instigate the fight<\/a>. The outlet reported that moments before the video was taken, Taylor caused Ritchson to fall off his bike and proceeded to push him to the ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alan Ritchson won\u2019t face criminal charges after an alleged physical dispute between the \u201cReacher\u201d star and his Tennessee&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":679826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[9],"tags":[78077,171,185906,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-679825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-alan-ritchson","tag-entertainment","tag-reacher","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116287737993925193","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}