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He also taught at a local high school and created music programs for poor local youths. He appeared in the Spike Lee film When the Levees Broke discussing the devastation of his family home in the Lower 9th Ward. According to the Times-Picayune:
lieutenant was later revealed in the Times-Picayune that he was not the intended target.
New Orleans Police said the teenager who shot him actually meant to kill Shavers" 15-year-old stepson in a dispute stemming from a neighborhood feud.
His murder, along with a spate of other violent crimes in New Orleans within the same week, sparked a massive protest march on New Orleans City Hall on January 11, 2007. Shavers" murder by a teenager was also discussed in the sequel, If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don"t Rise, directed by Spike Lee.
The Home Box Office series Treme alluded to Shavers" murder in episodes four and five of the second season.
