Video Footage of Attack on Pearl Jam’s Jeff Ament

Video Footage of Attack on Pearl Jam’s Jeff Ament
Gabriel J. Hernandez | 05.15.2009 - Gibson.com

Atlanta’s WAGA-TV Fox channel 5 obtained the surveillance video of Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament getting attacked and robbed outside Southern Tracks Recording studio three weeks ago. Pearl Jam is using the studio – which is producer Brendan O’Brien’s home studio – to record its ninth album.

The footage was broadcast on the station’s early evening news program yesterday, and clearly shows three men approach the white Jeep from behind shortly after it entered the parking lot. Ament is in the passenger side of the vehicle and tries to make a run for it with what appears to be a backpack. But after only taking a few steps, he is tackled to the ground by one of the assailants who takes the backpack and runs off with the other two attackers in the same direction they first emerged from.

According to the police report, Ament and a Pearl Jam employee had just pulled up to the back of the studio when the three men approached the Jeep. All of them were wearing black masks and holding knives. Ament was robbed of over $7,000 in cash and merchandise, and received treatment for a head laceration from EMS on the scene.

The attackers apparently escaped in a waiting black Nissan Maxima, and no arrests have yet been made.

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