PUEBLO, Colorado — 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 a country music star to Scotty McCreery to abruptly stop his show and call the alleged attacker off the stage.
“Here, here,” McCreery says in video of the event, pointing to the crowd and the band stopping playing. “That’s a lady you just hit sir. Absolutely not. Who just hit the lady?”
The North Carolina singer, who rose to fame as a teenager for her role on the television show American Idol, called police and security and asked if the woman was OK.
Boos and chants were heard during Saturday’s concert in Pueblo, Colorado, as authorities responded.
McCreery, 30, urged the crowd to let authorities know who was responsible. He said hitting a woman was the “definition of a coward” and told the alleged attacker to “get out of here as fast as possible” before the show resumed.
The woman was examined at the scene by paramedics and did not require hospital transport, said Olga Robak of the Colorado Department of Agriculture.
Possible criminal charges were forwarded to prosecutors, but the man was not arrested, Robak said. The Pueblo County District Attorney’s Office did not immediately respond to questions about the case.