Shavers was fatally shot at around 5:30 p.m. on December 28, 2006. He had been driving his family in a black
Chevrolet Malibu in the 2200 block of Dumaine Street. Although critically wounded, he continued driving four blocks up Dumaine before stopping. By 6 p.m., Shavers lay motionless on his back in the middle of the street just outside the open driver's side door. Although he was taken to a hospital he died within an hour. It was later revealed in the
Times-Picayune that Shavers 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. Shavers' murder, along with a spate of other violent crimes in
New Orleans within the same week (including the murder of local filmmaker
Helen Hill), sparked a massive protest march on New Orleans City Hall on January 11, 2007. ==In popular culture==