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Oct 21, 1978
Mel Street commits suicide with a self-inflicted gunshot on his 45th birthday at home in Hendersonville, Tennessee. He scored a number of hits on independent labels from 1972-1978, and influenced later country singers Ricky Van Shelton and Marty Raybon, of Shenandoah
Dec 1, 1978
Sgt. Barry Sadler shoots and kills songwriter Lee Emerson in a dispute that involves 25-year-old Darlene Sharp. He is found guilty of murder, though he serves only 22 days. Emerson wrote hits for Carl Smith, Marty Robbins and Porter Wagoner
Jun 1, 1979
Sgt. Barry Sadler is charged in Nashville with the December 1 shooting death of songwriter Lee Emerson. Sadler says he shot Emerson, also known as Lee Bellamy, in self-defense while trying to protect 25-year-old Darlene Sharp
Oct 27, 1980
Mark David Chapman buys a .38-caliber handgun in Honolulu. He uses it a few weeks later to murder "I Feel Fine" songwriter John Lennon in New York
Dec 8, 1980
John Lennon dies of a gun shot from a disturbed fan outside his New York home, the Dakota. Songs Lennon co-wrote as a member of The Beatles will become 1980s country hits for Sweethearts Of The Rodeo and Rosanne Cash
Jun 9, 1981
Former Texas Playboys vocalist Eugene "Tagg" Lambert dies of a self-inflicted gunshot in Turkey, Texas. He appeared on the 1968 recording "Southwestern Waltz," which makes it into the 1983 movie "The Right Stuff"
Jul 4, 1981
Janice Higgs is found dead from a gunshot wound to the head outside the Nashville apartment of session bass player Bob Moore, who's played on hits by Elvis Presley, Loretta Lynn and Kenny Rogers. Weeks later, Moore passes a lie detector test, and Higgs' death is ruled a suicide
Dec 21, 1981
Three armed intruders break into Johnny Cash's home in Jamaica and take $35,000 in cash and jewelry, plus a car and the evening meal. During the robbery, they hold a gun to the head of Cash's son, John Carter, then lock the family in the wine cellar
Sep 7, 1982
Songwriter Charlie Silver is found dead in a Shelbyville, Tennessee, motel room, apparently from self-inflicted gunshots. With him is a plaque from Barbara Mandrell's "Standing Room Only," the only hit he wrote
Sep 24, 1983
Ronnie McDowell is arrested and charged with carrying a concealed weapon when a loaded derringer is discovered by an X-ray machine in his luggage at National Airport in Washington, D.C.
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