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    • Aug 15, 1988
    Kenny Rogers' drummer, Bobby Daniels, allegedly shoots and kills his ex-wife, Sylvia Coakley, after a domestic fight. Daniels handled the skins on numerous recordings, including Rogers' duet with Kim Carnes, "Don't Fall In Love With A Dreamer"
    Sep 7, 1988
    Sgt. Barry Sadler is shot in the head in Guatemala City in what is believed to be an attempted robbery as he gets into a taxi. He lives for more than a year afterward
    Feb 7, 1989
    Johnny Paycheck begins serving a prison sentence in Chillicothe, Ohio, for shooting a man at the North High Lounge in Hillsboro in December 1985
    Mar 9, 1989
    Kevin Hughes, chart director for the music trade publication Cash Box, is shot on Music Row in Nashville. The killer is unidentified for more than 13 years
    Feb 8, 1990
    Del Shannon commits suicide with a self-inflicted gunshot at his home in Santa Clarita, California. Best known for his 1961 pop hit "Runaway," he wrote Juice Newton's 1986 country hit "Cheap Love"
    May 31, 1991
    Tracy Lawrence is shot in Shoney's parking lot on Music Row just after completing vocals for his debut album. Lawrence and a female friend were robbed by three gunmen prior to the shooting
    Sep 23, 1992
    Steve Scruggs, a former member of his dad's Earl Scruggs Revue, shoots his wife, Elizabeth, at their home in White House, Tennessee, then shoots himself as well
    Feb 21, 1994
    Trace Adkins' second wife, Julie, shoots him with a .38-caliber revolver, the bullet penetrating both lungs and both chambers of his heart
    Apr 4, 1994
    Tracy Lawrence is arrested and charged with four counts after allegedly following three teenagers from Interstate 40 to a Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, home and firing two shots from a Magnum .357 in the driveway
    Nov 23, 1994
    Pop songwriter/producer Tommy Boyce dies at his Nashville home from a self-inflicted gunshot. The producer of The Monkees' "Last Train To Clarksville," he wrote Jay & The Americans' "Come A Little Bit Closer," a country hit for Johnny Duncan



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