Fact #195797
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Short story:
Former Staff Sgt Barry Sadler, best known for his militaristic right wing 1966 hit, The Ballad of the Green Berets, shoots and kills country music singer and songwriter Lee Emerson Bellamy, in the parking lot of a girlfriend's apartment in the suburbs of Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Sadler will hire a top criminal defense attorney, avoid trial, plead guilty to involuntary manslaughter, and serve less than a month in the county workhouse after a plea bargain.