Cheri Oteri and Will Ferrell at the Spartan Cheerleaders

Gaetano Oteri, the father of former Saturday Night Live star Cheri Oteri, was murdered in Nashville this weekend by famed country songwriter Richard Fagan. TMZ says:

According to the police, Fagan got into a scrape last Saturday night with Oteri, and admitted to cutting him with a pocket knife — and then got picked up for DUI later that night after downing six shots.

Fagan and Oteri had collaborated on several of Fagan’s songs, and on Fagan’s own website Oteri is credited with helping Fagan through tough times: “Many years ago when Fagan was down and out (see Fagan bio), it was Tommy who took him him and put him on a path to songwriting stardom.”

So the country songwriter killed his best friend with a pocket knife, downed six shots of what I’m assuming was whiskey, and then got arrested for DUI in his pickup truck. Are we sure that actually happened and isn’t just one of his songs? That’d be like Pharrell shooting a dude while dancing on top of a Ferrari, chugging a bottle of Cristal.