Mark Capps (December 14, 1968 – January 5, 2023) was an American

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and

music producer A record producer or music producer is a music creating project's overall supervisor whose responsibilities can involve a range of creative and technical leadership roles. Typically the job involves hands-on oversight of recording sessions; ensu ...

from

Nashville, Tennessee Nashville, often known as Music City, is the capital and List of municipalities in Tennessee, most populous city in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is the county seat, seat of Davidson County, Tennessee, Davidson County in Middle Tennessee, locat ...

. He shared the

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for Best Polka Album in

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

, and

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

for

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albums by Jimmy Sturr & His Orchestra. Capps was part of a well-established musical family in Nashville. His father was

Grand Ole Opry The ''Grand Ole Opry'' is a regular live country music, country-music Radio broadcasting, radio broadcast originating from Nashville, Tennessee, Nashville, Tennessee, on WSM (AM), WSM, held between two and five nights per week, depending on the ...

house band guitarist

Jimmy Capps The Nashville A-Team was a nickname given to a group of session musicians in Nashville, Tennessee, who earned wide acclaim in the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s, similar to their West Coast counterpart who became known (after the fact) as the Wre ...

. He worked with

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, and

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artists throughout his career. He died after being shot in the doorway of his home by a member of a

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team responding to reports he had been holding his wife and adult stepdaughter hostage. He was 54 years old. He had been wanted on aggravated assault and aggravated kidnapping warrants.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Capps, Mark 1968 births 2023 deaths 21st-century American criminals American audio engineers American record producers Grammy Award winners Musicians from Nashville, Tennessee People shot dead by law enforcement officers in Tennessee