PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) 鈥� 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 to abruptly stop his show and call out the alleged assailant from the stage.
鈥淩ight here, right here,鈥� McCreery says in from the event, as he points into the crowd and the band stops playing. 鈥淭hat's a lady you just hit sir. Absolutely not. Who just hit the lady?鈥�
The singer from North Carolina 鈥� who gained fame as a teenager appearing on the television show American Idol 鈥� 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 鈥渄efinition of a coward鈥� and told the alleged assailant to 鈥済et the heck out of here鈥� 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. The Pueblo County District Attorney鈥檚 Office did not immediately respond to questions about the case.
The Associated Press
