Billy Joe Shaver's attorney says police have issued arrest warrants for the country singer after he shot and wounded a man outside a Texas bar.
Attorney Joseph Turner of Austin says Shaver, who lives in Waco, left a bar in Lorena on Saturday night. Turner says a drunk, aggressive stranger with a knife followed Shaver into the parking lot.
The lawyer says Shaver shot the man in self-defense.
Turner says police in Lorena, a town about 80 miles north of Austin, issued arrest warrants Monday night on charges of aggravated assault and possessing a firearm in a prohibited place.
He says Shaver attempted to surrender to Austin police last night but was not arrested because the police did not have a record of the warrants.
Lorena authorities could not be reached for comment Tuesday morning.
The victim was reportedly shot in the cheek, but was talking and alert afterward and was hospitalized.
Shaver rose to country music fame in the 1970s. He wrote "Georgia on a Fast Train" and "I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday)" and has recorded more than 20 albums.
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