Billy Joe Shaver in Court Country singer Billy Joe Shaver, left hugs Kimberly Kelly, right, after closing arguments Friday, April 9, 2010, in Waco, Texas. Brett Eldredge's 'Sunday Drive' Video Will Make You Cry Here’s How a KN95 Mask Works in the Fight Against COVIDPeter Navarro Melts Down: Media Should Cover Trump Like ‘Fox and Friends’ Does Shaver’s attorney claims Billy Bryant Coker, 50, was drunk, aggressive and had a knife Saturday night (March 31) when he was shot in the cheek outside Papa Joe’s Texas Saloon in … “I felt he was gonna kill me,” Shaver testified. “He was a big bully, the worst I ever seen — a big bad one. According to affidavits collected by law officers investigating the shooting, some witnesses say the attack was unprovoked. Billy Coker, the man Shaver shot, looked stunned after state District Judge Matt Johnson read the verdict, which a jury reached after deliberating for less than two hours.
A friend of many and a stranger to none, Billy Bryant was beloved by everyone who came to know him. Burial will follow at Robinson Cemetery. And I been all around the world.”State prosecutors argued Shaver could have left in his truck before shooting Coker. After a three-day trial that drew friends Willie Nelson and Robert Duvall to a Waco, Texas courtroom, outlaw country artist Billy Joe Shaver was found not guilty Friday on charges of aggravated assault for shooting a man in the face outside a Texas bar in 2007. Several witnesses to a weekend shooting involving Billy Joe Shaver contradict the singer-songwriter’s account of the incident. “If I was a chicken shit I would have left.”The shooting occurred March 31, 2007, after Shaver stopped into the smoky bar for a beer with his former wife, Wanda.
Billy Joe Shaver in Court Country singer Billy Joe Shaver, left hugs Kimberly Kelly, right, after closing arguments Friday, April 9, 2010, in Waco, Texas. Brett Eldredge's 'Sunday Drive' Video Will Make You Cry Here’s How a KN95 Mask Works in the Fight Against COVIDPeter Navarro Melts Down: Media Should Cover Trump Like ‘Fox and Friends’ Does Shaver’s attorney claims Billy Bryant Coker, 50, was drunk, aggressive and had a knife Saturday night (March 31) when he was shot in the cheek outside Papa Joe’s Texas Saloon in … “I felt he was gonna kill me,” Shaver testified. “He was a big bully, the worst I ever seen — a big bad one. According to affidavits collected by law officers investigating the shooting, some witnesses say the attack was unprovoked. Billy Coker, the man Shaver shot, looked stunned after state District Judge Matt Johnson read the verdict, which a jury reached after deliberating for less than two hours.
A friend of many and a stranger to none, Billy Bryant was beloved by everyone who came to know him. Burial will follow at Robinson Cemetery. And I been all around the world.”State prosecutors argued Shaver could have left in his truck before shooting Coker. After a three-day trial that drew friends Willie Nelson and Robert Duvall to a Waco, Texas courtroom, outlaw country artist Billy Joe Shaver was found not guilty Friday on charges of aggravated assault for shooting a man in the face outside a Texas bar in 2007. Several witnesses to a weekend shooting involving Billy Joe Shaver contradict the singer-songwriter’s account of the incident. “If I was a chicken shit I would have left.”The shooting occurred March 31, 2007, after Shaver stopped into the smoky bar for a beer with his former wife, Wanda.
Billy Joe Shaver in Court Country singer Billy Joe Shaver, left hugs Kimberly Kelly, right, after closing arguments Friday, April 9, 2010, in Waco, Texas. Brett Eldredge's 'Sunday Drive' Video Will Make You Cry Here’s How a KN95 Mask Works in the Fight Against COVIDPeter Navarro Melts Down: Media Should Cover Trump Like ‘Fox and Friends’ Does Shaver’s attorney claims Billy Bryant Coker, 50, was drunk, aggressive and had a knife Saturday night (March 31) when he was shot in the cheek outside Papa Joe’s Texas Saloon in … “I felt he was gonna kill me,” Shaver testified. “He was a big bully, the worst I ever seen — a big bad one. According to affidavits collected by law officers investigating the shooting, some witnesses say the attack was unprovoked. Billy Coker, the man Shaver shot, looked stunned after state District Judge Matt Johnson read the verdict, which a jury reached after deliberating for less than two hours.
A friend of many and a stranger to none, Billy Bryant was beloved by everyone who came to know him. Burial will follow at Robinson Cemetery. And I been all around the world.”State prosecutors argued Shaver could have left in his truck before shooting Coker. After a three-day trial that drew friends Willie Nelson and Robert Duvall to a Waco, Texas courtroom, outlaw country artist Billy Joe Shaver was found not guilty Friday on charges of aggravated assault for shooting a man in the face outside a Texas bar in 2007. Several witnesses to a weekend shooting involving Billy Joe Shaver contradict the singer-songwriter’s account of the incident. “If I was a chicken shit I would have left.”The shooting occurred March 31, 2007, after Shaver stopped into the smoky bar for a beer with his former wife, Wanda.
Billy Joe Shaver in Court Country singer Billy Joe Shaver, left hugs Kimberly Kelly, right, after closing arguments Friday, April 9, 2010, in Waco, Texas. Brett Eldredge's 'Sunday Drive' Video Will Make You Cry Here’s How a KN95 Mask Works in the Fight Against COVIDPeter Navarro Melts Down: Media Should Cover Trump Like ‘Fox and Friends’ Does Shaver’s attorney claims Billy Bryant Coker, 50, was drunk, aggressive and had a knife Saturday night (March 31) when he was shot in the cheek outside Papa Joe’s Texas Saloon in … “I felt he was gonna kill me,” Shaver testified. “He was a big bully, the worst I ever seen — a big bad one. According to affidavits collected by law officers investigating the shooting, some witnesses say the attack was unprovoked. Billy Coker, the man Shaver shot, looked stunned after state District Judge Matt Johnson read the verdict, which a jury reached after deliberating for less than two hours.
A friend of many and a stranger to none, Billy Bryant was beloved by everyone who came to know him. Burial will follow at Robinson Cemetery. And I been all around the world.”State prosecutors argued Shaver could have left in his truck before shooting Coker. After a three-day trial that drew friends Willie Nelson and Robert Duvall to a Waco, Texas courtroom, outlaw country artist Billy Joe Shaver was found not guilty Friday on charges of aggravated assault for shooting a man in the face outside a Texas bar in 2007. Several witnesses to a weekend shooting involving Billy Joe Shaver contradict the singer-songwriter’s account of the incident. “If I was a chicken shit I would have left.”The shooting occurred March 31, 2007, after Shaver stopped into the smoky bar for a beer with his former wife, Wanda.
Shaver testified Coker was rude to Wanda and told Shaver to “Shut the fuck up.” After the two went outside, witnesses testified Shaver asked Coker, “Where do you want it?” then pointed a .22 pistol at Coker’s cheek, pulled the trigger and fled in his truck. Outside the bar, witnesses said they heard Shaver tell Coker, “Tell me you are sorry” and “Nobody tells me to shut up.” Another witness claims they heard Shaver tell Coker, “Where do you want it?” before they heard a gunshot. “I’m from Texas,” Shaver responded in his honky-tonk Texas drawl. “Hopefully things will work out where we become friends enough so that he gives me back my bullet.”In a packed, sweltering courtroom, Shaver, 70, admitted to shooting Billy Bryant Coker on the back porch of Papa Joe’s Saloon, a beer joint outside Shaver’s Waco hometown. Billy "Bill" Bryant Coker, 62, of Waco, passed away, Sunday, October 14, 2018. Billy Bryant Coker testified in Waco on Wednesday that country singer-songwriter Billy Joe Shaver wounded him outside Papa Joe's Texas Saloon in … In a packed, sweltering courtroom, Shaver, 70, admitted to shooting Billy Bryant Coker on the back porch of Papa Joe’s Saloon, a beer joint outside Shaver’s Waco hometown. The bar’s owner reportedly introduced Shaver and Coker earlier in the evening, and the two men talked for more than an hour prior to the shooting.
Billy Joe Shaver in Court Country singer Billy Joe Shaver, left hugs Kimberly Kelly, right, after closing arguments Friday, April 9, 2010, in Waco, Texas. Brett Eldredge's 'Sunday Drive' Video Will Make You Cry Here’s How a KN95 Mask Works in the Fight Against COVIDPeter Navarro Melts Down: Media Should Cover Trump Like ‘Fox and Friends’ Does Shaver’s attorney claims Billy Bryant Coker, 50, was drunk, aggressive and had a knife Saturday night (March 31) when he was shot in the cheek outside Papa Joe’s Texas Saloon in … “I felt he was gonna kill me,” Shaver testified. “He was a big bully, the worst I ever seen — a big bad one. According to affidavits collected by law officers investigating the shooting, some witnesses say the attack was unprovoked. Billy Coker, the man Shaver shot, looked stunned after state District Judge Matt Johnson read the verdict, which a jury reached after deliberating for less than two hours.
A friend of many and a stranger to none, Billy Bryant was beloved by everyone who came to know him. Burial will follow at Robinson Cemetery. And I been all around the world.”State prosecutors argued Shaver could have left in his truck before shooting Coker. After a three-day trial that drew friends Willie Nelson and Robert Duvall to a Waco, Texas courtroom, outlaw country artist Billy Joe Shaver was found not guilty Friday on charges of aggravated assault for shooting a man in the face outside a Texas bar in 2007. Several witnesses to a weekend shooting involving Billy Joe Shaver contradict the singer-songwriter’s account of the incident. “If I was a chicken shit I would have left.”The shooting occurred March 31, 2007, after Shaver stopped into the smoky bar for a beer with his former wife, Wanda.
