Nigel Max Edge once escorted ‘American Idol’ star Kellie Pickler to CMT Music Awards only to later sue her for attempted murder [PHOTOS]

A 40-year-old Oak Island, North Carolina man who was charged with the Southport marina shooting that killed three people once escorted 'American Idol' star Kellie Pickler to the CMT Music Awards — and recently sued her, claiming she tried to poison him with tainted Jim Beam whiskey at the star-studded event.

Nigel Max Edge, who changed his name from Sean William DeBevoise in 2023 and used to be a military veteran before becoming a fisherman, appeared on the red carpet in 2012 as the singer's special date, accompanied by his service dog Rusty.

'Me and my date (Sgt Sean Debevoise),' Picker said on X as she shared a photo of herself with the war veteran.

DeBevoise, who had been wounded in Iraq, boasted about being Pickler's date at the occasion.

'I am happy to be here at the CMT Music Awards alongside Kellie, and even more so to call her a friend,' he stated at the time, according to Taste of Country. 'She's the most sincere person I know. She's an angel.'

 

The two had previously met at a charity event in North Carolina for the troops.

Edge soon sued Pickler, saying she attempted to kill him with a poison-laced glass of whiskey at the music awards.

The only reason he survived was because he refused the drink it, Edge wrote in court documents. The suspected murderer represented himself in the filing.

His complaint against Pickler was one of several strange lawsuits filed by the former vet in the last year, including several charges that a cabal of 'LGBTQ White Supremacists' and pedophiles were attempting to assassinate him because he is a'straight man.'

Edge accused Southport's Generations Church of involvement in the scheme, as well as Brunswick Medical Center of attempting to kill him, in his most recent lawsuit, filed on July 25th. Both lawsuits were dismissed.

Edge, 39, a former war veteran purportedly suffering from PTSD, was arrested in connection with the Southport mass shooting, which killed three people and injured five more.

At the time of the late Saturday night shooting, Edge is alleged to have pulled up in a single engine boat along the Southport marina before firing at the American Fish Company restaurant in Southport Yacht Basin into unsuspecting diners and revelers, authorities said.

Authorities had yet to release a known motive.

Southport N.C shooting leads to 3 dead, 8 injured after gunman fires from single engine boat into packed marina. Nigel Max Edge aka Sean Debovoise of Oak Island, North Carolina identified as shooting suspect according to social media.