For BRELAND, the shooting shut the door on pursuing a career in any sort of mean-streets music. "I was like, I'm not cut out for this, and I don't want to be in these situations," he says.

After her niece went missing, Jeannie Locklair Bush found it difficult to write. “Ciera (Breland) was my biggest fan,” Bush said in a message to IndyStar. “She used to beg me to publish ...