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Oct 17, 1995
Twelve-year-old Adriane Nicole Dickerson is shot to death in a supermarket parking lot in Nashville. The tragedy inspires Vince Gill to write "Pretty Little Adriana"
Jan 16, 1996
Jimmy Buffett makes an emergency landing in his sea plane when Jamaican police open fire, believing the aircraft is carrying drugs. Instead, the plane is carrying Buffett and his guest, Bono, of U2
Dec 9, 1996
Faron Young shoots himself in the head in Nashville, apparently distraught over his slumping career. He dies a day later
Jul 15, 1997
Fashion designer Gianni Versace is killed by a gunman outside his home in Miami Beach, Florida. A dozen years later, his namesake company is referenced in Tim McGraw's hit "It's A Business Doing Pleasure With You"
Sep 17, 1997
Sammy Kershaw walks out before a show at Super Toad in Des Moines, Iowa, when he is not paid prior to the performance. The club owner tells the local paper Kershaw flashed a gun at him during the dispute. Kershaw sues him for slander in October
Feb 17, 1998
Pop songwriter Bob Merrill dies of a self-inflicted gunshot in his car in Culver City, California. He wrote rockabilly singer Jimmie Rodgers' "Honeycomb" and Ernest Tubb's "You Don't Have To Be A Baby To Cry"
Apr 7, 1998
Drummer Carlos Vega dies of self-inflicted gun shots at his Los Angeles home. Noted for his work on pop records by James Taylor, Boz Scaggs and Olivia Newton-John, he also played on at least 15 country hits by Vince Gill and Reba McEntire
Jun 10, 1998
A mistrial is declared when a Virginia jury remains deadlocked in a $125,000 lawsuit against Jimmy Dean. The singer is accused of assault for ordering Christopher Dallaglio off his property while carrying a shotgun in January 1996
Aug 29, 1998
Johnny Rodriguez shoots and kills Israel Borrego, an acquaintance he says he thought was an intruder in his home in Sabinal, Texas. Rodriguez is charged with murder and freed on a $250,000 bond
May 4, 2001
Bonny Lee Bakley, the wife of "Baretta" star Robert Blake, is shot and killed at Vitello's in Los Angeles. She had claimed in 1993 that Jerry Lee Lewis fathered her child. Lewis denied the claim, though he reportedly had reached an out-of-court settlement
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