Posted on 03/21/2019 3:22:23 PM PDT by robowombat
Rising country star Justin Carter accidentally shot, killed with gun being used as music video prop
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It was supposed to be a prop, but it wound up being deadly. Country singer Justin Carter was shot to death in Texas with a gun that was being used as a prop for a music video, local news outlets reported Thursday.
The apparent accidental shooting took place in Carter’s own apartment in Woodlands, north of Houston, on Saturday, according to ABC 11. Details of the accident have not been released, but an employee with Carter’s agency, Triple Threat Management, told the station that the gun was ultimately going to be used in the video. Police did not immediately return a request for information.
Carter, 35, was born and raised in Texas and is described as “a country boy to his core” on his website. “Although he just got his start, he’s rising up fast!” a short biography on his website reads.
Carter had recently released two new songs and a music video, and he was working on a new album, according to his Facebook page, which now includes posts from his family.
The singer was influenced by Garth Brooks, Clay Walker, George Strait .... “Justin’s passion is derived from the sound of old country, and he clings to that feeling he gets when he hears it and tries to push that into his music,” the online bio states. “Times are changing and so are the (generation’s) taste in music, but Justin tries to keep a happy medium between both old and new to satisfy everyone.”
There are 3 rules
1) a gun is ALWAYS considered loaded
2) Never point it at anything you don’t want to die
3) finger off the trigger
Violation of all 3 resulted in death.
“Rising Country star” seems overly generous here. I’m a big country music fan and I never heard of the guy. Did he even have a charted hit?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Kath
Terry Kath is who you are referring to:
Ironically, he killed himself as Chicago's hit "If You Leave Me Now" was climbing the charts. No, it wasn't Kath's vocal (it was Peter Cetera) but Kath's voice is the lead on songs like "Colour My World" and "Make Me Smile".
Lessons of this story guns aren’t toys. Also entertainers a crime don’t mix.
Unloaded guns never go off. Its something I learned as a kid and has worked for me ever since.
“It ain’t loaded”
Famous last words...
Yep.....
[Horsing around with a gun that he expected to be used in a music video he was going to be in? But dumb as a stump, so didn’t confirm that the gun was in a harmless state.]
Jon Erik Hexum found out.
There was at least one YouTube indie filmmaker channel that explains how to do it. That was years ago.
I guess realism won and he lost.
Modern country music is awful so might ad well.
this is what happens when you don’t respect a weapon. they are not toys.
Huh?
Literally, hundreds of examples.
Murphy’s Law: Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong...
Corollary: Make something idiot-proof, and someone will just build a better idiot.
I probably missed your sarcasm!
A blank will kill you.
Up-and-coming country singer Justin Carter has died after a gun accidentally
fired while he was filming a music video. He was 35.
Carters’ mother, Cindy McClellan, told Fox News her son was filming a music
video in Houston, Texas, on Saturday when a gun in his pocket “went off and
caught my son in the corner of his eye.”
“He was a wonderful artist,” McClellan said. “He was the voice, he was
the total package and we’re trying to keep his legend [alive].”
Reading this same story in the Brit/EU press the comments range from anti US to the guy deserved it.
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