{"id":3817,"date":"2013-11-26T09:45:02","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T09:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/11\/26\/country-singer-wayne-mills-shot-dead-by-bar-owner\/"},"modified":"2013-11-26T09:45:02","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T09:45:02","slug":"country-singer-wayne-mills-shot-dead-by-bar-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2013\/11\/26\/country-singer-wayne-mills-shot-dead-by-bar-owner\/","title":{"rendered":"Country singer Wayne Mills shot dead by bar owner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nme.assets.ipccdn.co.uk\/images\/gallery\/WayneMillsBand02PR251113.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"221\" height=\"147\" \/><br \/>US country singer Wayne Mills has been shot dead in a Nashville bar after reportedly arguing with the owner over a smoking ban.  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>Police officers in Tennessee said that the bar owner Chris Ferrell shot the 44-year-old singer in the early hours of Saturday (November 23) after an argument over the musician lighting up a cigarette in the non-smoking area, Sky News reports.<\/p>\n<p>Mills was rushed to hospital, but died at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, police said. Officers are investigating Ferrell&#8217;s claim that he opened fire in self-defence. No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n<p>The Wayne Mills Band has been playing for more than 15 years, performing mostly on the college circuit.<\/p>\n<p>Country music stars Jamey Johnson and Blake Shelton and American Idol winner Taylor Hicks all opened as support acts for the band early on in their careers.<\/p>\n<p>Shelton tweeted: &#8220;Extremely sad to hear about the death of my old friend Wayne Mills.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The pub where the incident took place, Pit and Barrel, was due to have been featured on a TV programme called Bar Rescue, which features struggling bars given makeovers by a nightclub expert on Sunday (November 24). Cable network Spike TV subsequently decided to pull the episode.<\/p>\n<p>Info source and photo credits: <br \/>NME<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US country singer Wayne Mills has been shot dead in a Nashville bar after reportedly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}