The younger man who allegedly slashed three folks throughout a struggle exterior a Manhattan bar Saturday is the son of late-night TV royalty — and is now going through an attempted-murder cost.
Arlo Willner, the 20-year-old offspring of late “Saturday Night Live” music coordinator Hal Willner and his spouse Sheila Rogers — an Emmy Award-winning producer for James Corden and David Letterman — pleaded not responsible to the upgraded cost and associated counts at his arraignment in Manhattan Legal Court docket.
His bail was set at $100,000 money or $200,000 bond — and bond was swiftly posted for him, permitting him to walk out of jail in lower than a day.
Willner — whose 2004 beginning was marked in a New York Submit column on the time — allegedly began the bloody argument round 3:30 a.m. when he approached the trio of victims exterior Sally’s Bar in Kips Bay and requested to purchase cocaine, based on a felony grievance.
The three male victims “informed [Willner] that this was not the place for that,” and the suspect’s ensuing verbal outrage turned bodily when he pulled a knife, the grievance mentioned.
Willner allegedly slashed one sufferer, 46, within the neck that led to a deep laceration and big bleeding, whereas he stabbed one other sufferer, 45, within the shoulder and slashed the third, who’s in his 30s, within the abdomen, based on the grievance.
The rampage lastly got here to an finish when one of many victims grabbed the knife and threw it on the street.
Manhattan prosecutors additionally charged Willner with two counts of first-degree assault and felony possession of a weapon on high of the attempted-murder rap.
He was initially slapped with solely assault and criminal-possession-of-a-weapon expenses by police.
Whereas a decide set the $100,000 money bail or $200,000 bond quantities within the case, the suspect was out of custody in much less inside a day after superstar bondsman Ira Judelson secured a $200,000 bond, law-enforcement sources mentioned.
Judelson is named the “bondman to the stars” for working with quite a few high-profile shoppers through the years, together with Harvey Weinstein, DMX and Ja Rule.
Willner’s mom Rogers was a three-time Emmy-winning supervisor producer for “The Late Late Show with James Corden” earlier than the CBS program led to 2023, and he or she beforehand labored for the “Late Show with David Letterman,” based on her LinkedIn profile.
Hal Willner was a extremely regarded music producer for “SNL” for many years earlier than his demise in April 2020. He was affected by signs related to COVID-19 when he died at 64 years previous, based on experiences on the time.
He was additionally recognized for placing collectively a sequence of eccentric all-star tribute albums.
A lawyer for Arlo Willner, David Scott Smith, declined touch upon the case Sunday.
A name left for Rogers and Willner was not returned.
His subsequent courtroom look is Could 22.
