Posted on 12/09/2004 11:30:12 PM PST by sully777
COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) - A man charged on stage and opened fire at a heavy metal band and fans at a crowded bar, killing four people and wounding two others before being killed by police, officials said on Thursday.
Among the dead was "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott, guitarist for the band Damageplan, who witnesses said appeared to have been singled out by the gunman and shot several times at close range.
Some witnesses told police the 25-year-old gunman, Nathan Gale of nearby Marysville, Ohio, shouted, "You broke up Pantera" before gunning down Abbott and firing at other band members and the crowd in the Wednesday night shooting.
Pantera was a hot Grammy-nominated 'thrash' metal band in the mid-1990s that Abbott, 38, and his brother, drummer Vinnie (Paul) Abbott, formed in the 1980s. The group, from Texas, had a bitter breakup after their last album in 2000, and the Abbotts formed Damageplan, which was on tour when the shooting happened...
Gale fired more than a dozen shots both at the band and the crowd of roughly 200 patrons, at one point stopping to reload his handgun with an ammunition clip, police said.
A police officer confronted Gale as he held a hostage in a headlock and was apparently attempting to flee, Mall said. The officer, James Niggemeyer, killed Gale as the hostage, who was not harmed, struggled to get out of the way...
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He was a Florida Indian too?
Going Stoned. Film at 11.
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And now, thanks to that prick Nathan, there won't ever be a reunion.
Seminole Indian
Seminal guitarist
I didn't write the headline
Oh, Seminole..... so he was from Florida?
Has the blood-dance by the gun-haters started yet?
The fact that the rampage was stopped by a gun might dampen it a little bit, I suppose.
Two nights in a row?!! What is this world coming to?
No, but the Rock & Roll haters have been whooping it up.
anyone nicknamed "dimebag" deserves to be shot in the face at work, and have their soul damed to Hell for eternity!
/some comments yesterday
:(
My college roommate and former bandmate was at DamagePlans last full show the night before in Buffalo NY.
"reload his handgun with an ammunition clip"? That's an odd way of describing the act of changing magazines. Was this "journalist" a quota hire?
And Yoko Ono remains unharmed.
Seminal:
1 : of, relating to, or consisting of seed or semen
2 : containing or contributing the seeds of later development
You're still capable of being surprised by journalists demonstrating ignorance about firearms? You must not read much MSM firearms reporting.
Good point. I stand properly chastized for belaboring the obvious :)
I wonder how that guy feels about the members of the Doobie Brothers?
Doobies keep breaking up and forming with new members http://www.classicbands.com/doobies.html. They're as bad as Manudo in that respect,
Minute By Minute as sung by Michael McDonald (Classic Rock's answer to Scoobie Doo)
HArrr rarrur rurraah
harrad rrarrru
urrahh urrih
Minute buy minute buy minute
I kee raahha raaahh ruh
Seminal:
1 : of, relating to, or consisting of seed or semen
2 : containing or contributing the seeds of later development
?? Over my head
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