Del Shannon Del Shannon Del Shannon (born Charles Weedon Westover; December 30, 1934 – February 8, 1990) was an American rock and roll and country musician and singer-songwriter, best known for his 1961 number 1 "Billboard" hit "Runaway". Westover was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and grew up in nearby Coopersville. He learned to play the ukulele and guitar and listened to country-and-western music, by artists such as Hank Williams, Hank Snow, and Lefty Frizzell. He was drafted into the Army in 1954, and while in Germany played guitar in a band called "The Cool Flames". When his service ended, he returned
Podvinje shooting Podvinje shooting The Podvinje shooting was an act of mass murder that occurred in the village of Podvinje, near Slavonski Brod, Croatia on April 14, 1998 at about 10 p.m., when 50-year-old Antun Mataić (also reported as Antun Matajić-Tunja) opened fire at guests in the café "Trenk" with a semi-automatic rifle, killing six men and one woman, and seriously wounding a 44-year-old man. He then drove away in his car and committed suicide a few kilometres away from the crime scene either by exploding a hand grenade, or by setting his vehicle on fire and shooting himself. Mataić (born May