Sorry, I can’t stop. Turns out Billy Joe Shaver would like his bullet back from the man he shot in the face. From the Austin Statesman.
“They asked me .. ‘What are you going to do about that boy you shot?’ ” Shaver told a jovial crowd. “I said, ‘I’m getting the damn bullet back.’ That’s true. You all think I’m joking. Walking around being famous with my bullet in him. Stealing all my press.”
The Texas Country Music Hall of Fame member, who said the shooting was in self-defense, continued: “I swear I’m sorry all that … happened, but it did, and God was good enough and you all were good enough to give me prayers and everything.”
According to testimony, Shaver used a tiny .22-caliber gun to shoot Coker. Coker testified that the bullet entered through his “mustache area,” knocked out a tooth and a crown and ripped through his mouth before lodging in the back of his neck. He has mostly recovered, he said.
After bantering with the crowd to start the Firehouse Saloon gig, Shaver, 70, launched into his “Georgia on a Fast Train,” which featured members of his band playing like they had been cooped up in a courtroom all week. Members of Shaver’s band, along with Willie Nelson and actor Robert Duvall, sat through some of the trial.
