A man at a Billie Eilish concert violently yanked the famed singer-songwriter toward the crowd Thursday night during a brief but disturbing incident in Miami, viral videos of the melee showed.
After the song “Guess,” Eilish jumped offstage and was sharing high-fives with fans on the floor of the Kaseya Center when a man pulled her into the audience.
Eilish appeared to land hard into the barrier.
The nine-time Grammy winner kept her composure, freed herself and kept walking without missing much of a beat.
“The person was ejected from the Kaseya Center,” the Miami Police Department said in a statement on Friday.
There are no criminal charges pending, police said.
Witness Andres Rodriguez, 26, was in the front row and about to get his high-five from Eilish when he spotted a man in the second row reach out to pull in the artist.
“I saw that and my first reaction was like, ‘So what was his game plan, like, what was he trying to do here?’” Rodriguez told NBC News.
The witness said he had a bad feeling about the man, who arrived just before Eilish took the stage and, without prompting, told two teenage girls near him, “Oh, don’t worry, I’m not going harass you.”
“So the mom [of the two girls] says, ‘Listen, buddy, as long as you don’t do something weird, we’re good,’” Rodriguez recalled. “I heard him say that and I’m like, ‘Why would you say something like that?’”
A security guard near Eilish immediately pulled the man off and he appeared in videos to be thrown backward, out of the area.
A young woman appeared to be shaken up during the brief melee, the witness said. She was checked out by medical personnel but didn’t return to her spot.
At least one female fan could be seen confronting the concertgoer who pulled at the performer.
Eilish is set to return to that same stage for shows on Saturday and Sunday. Representatives for Eilish did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The Kaseya Center did not immediately return NBC News’ request for comment.
