Arlo Willner, the 20-year-old son of late Saturday Night Live music sketch producer Hal Willner and wife Sheila Rogers, an Emmy-winning producer who has worked for Saturday Night Live, The Late Late Show and The Late Show With David Letterman, has been charged with attempted murder after a knife attack outside of a bar in Manhattan over the weekend.
Willner was arrested at 3:35 a.m. after he allegedly stabbed three people outside of Sally’s Bar at 129 Lexington Ave.
According to a criminal complaint obtained by the New York Post, Willner allegedly approached three men outside of the bar and asked to buy cocaine. After he was told “this was not the place for that,” the Post notes, Willner allegedly pulled out a knife and slashed one victim in the neck, another in the abdomen and a third in the shoulder.
The attack came to an end, the Post reports, when one of the victims grabbed the knife and threw it in the street.
The victims were taken to Bellevue hospital in stable condition.
Willner was subsequently charged with attempted murder as well as charges of assault and criminal possession of a weapon.
He was arraigned in Manhattan criminal court, where he pleaded not guilty and later posted bail, which had been set at $100,000 cash or $200,000 bond.
His next court appearance is set for Thursday, May 22.
Willner’s attorney has not yet responded to The Hollywood Reporter‘s request for comment.
Rogers has most recently worked as a talent producer for Saturday Night Live as well as SNL‘s 50th anniversary special and the Ladies and Gentlemen documentary looking back at the music on the long-running late-night sketch show. Prior to that she served as a co-executive producer and supervising producer for The Late Late Show With James Corden before it ended in 2023. And she spent 10 years as a producer and talent executive on The Late Show With David Letterman from 2005-2015. She also worked as a talent coordinator for Letterman’s Late Night from 1991-1993.
Hal Willner was a longtime music sketch producer on Saturday Night Live who died in March 2020 after having symptoms consistent with COVID-19.
He was also known for assembling diverse groups of musicians to play slightly off-center work and produced scores for Gangs of New York and Talladega Nights as well as albums by Marianne Faithfull and Lou Reed.
