Last week in Memphis, a member of Jerry Lee Lewis’s band and his friend was fatally shot during a shootout.
BB Cunningham, a seventy-year-old bass player, was serving as a security guard at an apartment complex when he responded to the sound of gunfire in the vicinity.
According to witnesses, more gunshots followed, and Cunningham was discovered lifeless at the scene alongside an unnamed 16-year-old.
The police are presently conducting an investigation into the occurrence.
Judy Baladez, a resident of the apartment complex, remarked, “I just like kind of stayed down in my bed and laid quiet and still because I didn’t know if more shooting was going to continue.” She further expressed that the gunfire was “very loud, like they were very close by; they didn’t sound like they were being shot in the air. They sounded close by like they were being shot at somebody.”
Previously a member of Memphis band The Hombres, BB Cunningham relocated to Los Angeles in the early 1970s to take up the role of chief engineer at Independent Recorders, collaborating with artists such as Billy Joel and Elton John.
In 1997, Cunningham became part of Lewis’s band and released his solo album titled ‘Hangin’ In’ in 2003.
Earlier this year, Jerry Lee Lewis entered his seventh marriage.
In 2010, Lewis disclosed a book deal with It Books, part of HarperCollins.
Alberto Rojas, director of publicity for It Books, mentioned in March of this year that the book deal remains valid, with Lewis’s memoir set for publication in 2013.
by Wallace McTavish
