Post by eyesbleed on Dec 9, 2004 14:48:57 GMT -5
There may not be many metalheads around here, but this is a very sad day for metal. Dimebag's work in Pantera put him at the top of the pack of metal guitarists. He was THE best imo.
I haven't heard the new band Damageplan's cd yet.
Dimebag & his brother Vinnie Paul were both in Pantera & then formed Damageplan after the demise of Pantera.
Here's an article I got from MTV.com.
Dimebag Darrell, guitarist for Damageplan and Pantera,
was killed during a shooting spree at a Columbus, Ohio,
nightclub Wednesday night. He was 38.
Darrell, real name Darrell Abbott, was among the five
people killed during the incident.
Also dead are the gunman, 25-year-old Nathan Gale of
nearby Marysville, Ohio, and two fans, Nathan Bray, 23
, and Erin Halk, 29, according to Columbus Police
Department public information officer Sherry Mercurio.
Gale also wounded two people.
Damageplan had just begun their first song in front of
approximately 250 people at Alrosa Villa when the
gunman jumped onstage, made a comment about Pantera,
and began firing at close range into Darrell's body, shooting
him several times before opening fire on the crowd.
A patrol officer nearby, James Niggemeyer, heard the call of
shots fired at 10:18 p.m. and by 10:20 p.m. had snuck inside
the club through a back door, according to public information
officer Sergeant Brent Mull. After entering, Niggemeyer, who
had no backup, confronted the gunman onstage, where he
observed one victim and Gale holding a hostage by the neck.
"The officer was able to strategically gun this guy down before
he was able to kill his hostage, and it appeared that he was
about to kill his hostage," Mull said at a press conference Thursday (December 9).
"The suspect had the hostage in a headlock situation and had his
firearm out shooting, and it's believed he was about to take his gun to the hostage."
But the hostage wriggled out of the way slightly, Mull said, and the officer was able
to kill the shooter with a single shotgun blast as the hostage escaped uninjured.
One eyewitness told CNN that Gale reloaded his gun during the shooting spree.
The Columbus Dispatch described the gunman as a tall, bald, heavyset man in a
Columbus Blue Jackets jersey and jeans.
The fifth victim's name and those of the two wounded have not yet been released,
but the club's manager told the Dispatch that one of the wounded was a security
guard who had tried to wrestle the attacker's gun away.
"If the officer hadn't acted when he did and how he did, we'd probably be looking
at more dead, because this guy was actively shooting," Mull said. Following the
incident, police took more than 200 patrons onto three city-donated buses, where
they were interviewed by some 60 police detectives.
"The ones that were inside and witnessed this ran for their lives and were in fear for
their lives," Mull said. "They are victims too, and we want to take care of them."
One of the witnesses, his jeans torn and soaked with blood, told CNN he jumped
onstage and attempted to give Darrell CPR before paramedics arrived.
Police have interviewed friends and relatives of the shooter, attempting to establish
a motive for his actions. "We may never know the motive for this," Mull said,
"unless he left a note somewhere else."
Searching Gale's residence is the next step of the investigation, as is analyzing amateur
video footage taken of the incident, which homicide investigators are looking at now,
Mull said. The venue had no surveillance footage. Mull also said he had been told there
was no metal detector at the club, though he could not confirm that at press time and a
club spokesperson could not be reached.
As word of Dimebag's death rippled through the metal community, the news was met with shock and sadness.
"I'm speechless," former Rob Zombie/ Ozzy Osbourne bassist Rob Blasko Nicholson said.
"This is totally unreal. Dimebag is a f---ing legend and this is total bullsh--."
Damageplan also features Dimebag's brother, former Pantera drummer Vinnie Paul;
singer Patrick Lachman and bassist Bob Zilla.
I haven't heard the new band Damageplan's cd yet.
Dimebag & his brother Vinnie Paul were both in Pantera & then formed Damageplan after the demise of Pantera.
Here's an article I got from MTV.com.
Dimebag Darrell, guitarist for Damageplan and Pantera,
was killed during a shooting spree at a Columbus, Ohio,
nightclub Wednesday night. He was 38.
Darrell, real name Darrell Abbott, was among the five
people killed during the incident.
Also dead are the gunman, 25-year-old Nathan Gale of
nearby Marysville, Ohio, and two fans, Nathan Bray, 23
, and Erin Halk, 29, according to Columbus Police
Department public information officer Sherry Mercurio.
Gale also wounded two people.
Damageplan had just begun their first song in front of
approximately 250 people at Alrosa Villa when the
gunman jumped onstage, made a comment about Pantera,
and began firing at close range into Darrell's body, shooting
him several times before opening fire on the crowd.
A patrol officer nearby, James Niggemeyer, heard the call of
shots fired at 10:18 p.m. and by 10:20 p.m. had snuck inside
the club through a back door, according to public information
officer Sergeant Brent Mull. After entering, Niggemeyer, who
had no backup, confronted the gunman onstage, where he
observed one victim and Gale holding a hostage by the neck.
"The officer was able to strategically gun this guy down before
he was able to kill his hostage, and it appeared that he was
about to kill his hostage," Mull said at a press conference Thursday (December 9).
"The suspect had the hostage in a headlock situation and had his
firearm out shooting, and it's believed he was about to take his gun to the hostage."
But the hostage wriggled out of the way slightly, Mull said, and the officer was able
to kill the shooter with a single shotgun blast as the hostage escaped uninjured.
One eyewitness told CNN that Gale reloaded his gun during the shooting spree.
The Columbus Dispatch described the gunman as a tall, bald, heavyset man in a
Columbus Blue Jackets jersey and jeans.
The fifth victim's name and those of the two wounded have not yet been released,
but the club's manager told the Dispatch that one of the wounded was a security
guard who had tried to wrestle the attacker's gun away.
"If the officer hadn't acted when he did and how he did, we'd probably be looking
at more dead, because this guy was actively shooting," Mull said. Following the
incident, police took more than 200 patrons onto three city-donated buses, where
they were interviewed by some 60 police detectives.
"The ones that were inside and witnessed this ran for their lives and were in fear for
their lives," Mull said. "They are victims too, and we want to take care of them."
One of the witnesses, his jeans torn and soaked with blood, told CNN he jumped
onstage and attempted to give Darrell CPR before paramedics arrived.
Police have interviewed friends and relatives of the shooter, attempting to establish
a motive for his actions. "We may never know the motive for this," Mull said,
"unless he left a note somewhere else."
Searching Gale's residence is the next step of the investigation, as is analyzing amateur
video footage taken of the incident, which homicide investigators are looking at now,
Mull said. The venue had no surveillance footage. Mull also said he had been told there
was no metal detector at the club, though he could not confirm that at press time and a
club spokesperson could not be reached.
As word of Dimebag's death rippled through the metal community, the news was met with shock and sadness.
"I'm speechless," former Rob Zombie/ Ozzy Osbourne bassist Rob Blasko Nicholson said.
"This is totally unreal. Dimebag is a f---ing legend and this is total bullsh--."
Damageplan also features Dimebag's brother, former Pantera drummer Vinnie Paul;
singer Patrick Lachman and bassist Bob Zilla.
