Scotty McCreery Stops Concert After Seeing Man Allegedly Hit Woman in the Audience: ‘Is She Okay?’
"As he started to sing, he noticed a man who allegedly hit a female and stopped the show and had him removed by security," concertgoer Jessica Rosario tells PEOPLE
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Scotty McCreery on April 28, 2024Scotty McCreery paused his concert to help one concertgoer.
The former American Idol winner stopped singing when he saw a man allegedly assault a woman in the audience at the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo, Colo., on Saturday, Aug. 24.
Concertgoer Jessica Rosario posted a video that showed McCreery, 30, pausing the show at the beginning of his “It Matters To Her" performance.
“Scotty was talking about his wife [Gabi Dugal's] favorite song in this video,” Rosario exclusively tells PEOPLE. “As he started to sing, he noticed a man who allegedly hit a female and stopped the show and had him removed by security.”
A representative for McCreery tells PEOPLE the singer has declined to comment on the incident.
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“Right here, that’s a lady you just hit, sir,” McCreery said in the video, pointing to someone in the audience. “Absolutely not, you just hit the lady. Police? Security? Is she okay? Get the heck out of here.”
“On God’s green earth. At a Scotty McCreery show? What are you doing?” he said shortly after he called out the alleged attacker. “Y'all let the cop know who hit the lady. That’s absolutely unacceptable.”
“We got ‘em? We good down there?” he asked security before concluding, “Whoever you are, that’s the definition of a coward, hitting a lady. Get the heck out of here.” He then checked in with the crowd before he resumed his set.
People in the front of the crowd pointed at a person who was eventually escorted out. The man and woman’s identities have not been publicly revealed, nor if the man was arrested.
“We can confirm that an incident took place at the Scotty McCreery concert where a man assaulted a woman and the performer stopped the show," Olga Robak, director of communications with The Colorado Department of Agriculture, tells PEOPLE.
Robak says that Colorado State Fair security assisted with crowd control. "This incident is still under investigation and we cannot comment further.”
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Scotty McCreery at Moody Center on May 07, 2022 in Austin, Texas.Anyone with information or footage of the attack is asked to contact Colorado State Fair Security at csf.security@state.co.us
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A representative for the Colorado State Fair did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for more information on Tuesday.
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