Suit Over Shootings of Upchurch, Johnny Cash Paintings Proceeds

A suit alleging country rapper Upchurch mutilated two portraits he acquired from a painter without payment and then gave them away to be auctioned for charity will go forward, after the Middle District of Florida found factual disputes bar an early disposition of the case.

Painter Jacob LeVeille alleges Ryan Upchurch’s shooting of tens to hundreds of rounds from a shotgun and automatic rifle at the portraits—one of Johnny Cash and one of himself—which he then signed with the words “F - - - This dudes Paintings” and “Yeah I shot this s - - -" have hurt the commercial ...