Del Shannon 1999. Del Shannon was inducted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame in 2005. 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
Uherský Brod shooting Uherský Brod shooting On 24 February 2015, a mass shooting occurred at the restaurant in the town of , Czech Republic. Nine people were killed, including the gunman, 63-year-old , who committed suicide after a standoff with police that lasted nearly two hours. In addition, one other person was injured. is 260 kilometers (160 miles) east-southeast of the Czech capital Prague. The shooting was one of the two deadliest mass murders in the country's peacetime history, alongside a 1973 vehicular rampage committed by . The circumstances of the shooting led to an examination on the gun politics in the Czech