WTF ?
Quote:At Least 5 Dead, 2 Wounded In Nightclub Shooting
Witnesses: Alleged Gunman Went Onto Stage, Fired Shots
POSTED: 10:32 pm EST December 8, 2004
UPDATED: 12:25 am EST December 9, 2004
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- At least five people died and two others were wounded after a shooting at a Columbus nightclub on Wednesday night, NBC 4 reported.
The shooting took place shortly after 10 p.m. at Alrosa Villa, located at 5055 Sinclair Road.
Two members of the heavy metal band Damageplan were reportedly shot and killed, including Dimebag Darrell, formerly with the band Pantera, NBC 4's David Wayne reported. The other band member's name was not released. The alleged gunman also died at the scene, Wayne reported.
Shortly after the band began playing its first song, a man reportedly ran onto the stage and began shooting, according to a witness who identified himself as Sean. Some members of the audience reportedly thought the man running onto the stage with a gun was part of the band's act, NBC 4's Erin Tate reported.
Witnesses said that several shots were fired at the band. Witnesses said that a bouncer at the club tackled the alleged gunman before that person was shot and killed. It was unclear as to whom shot the alleged gunman.
NBC 4 reported that of the surviving victims, one person was in critical condition while the other was in fair condition. Several others were treated at the scene, suffering from various injuries.
Alrosa Villa is a popular north Columbus nightspot for young adults, featuring rock and heavy metal bands, NBC 4 reported.
According to the band's Web site, Damageplan was touring nationally. It performed in Buffalo, N.Y., on Tuesday night and had a concert scheduled in Flint, Mich., on Thursday.
Damageplan featured former Pantera artists Dimebag Darrell and Vinnie Paul. The pair were joined by vocalist Patrick Lachman and bassist Bobzilla, according to their Web site.
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Quote:COLUMBUS, Ohio -- At least three people died and four others were wounded after a shooting at a Columbus nightclub on Wednesday night, NBC 4 reported.
The shooting took place shortly after 10 p.m. at Alrosa Villa, located at 5055 Sinclair Road.
Two members of the heavy metal band Damageplan were reportedly shot and killed, including Dimebag Darrell, formerly with the band Pantera, NBC 4's David Wayne reported. The alleged gunman also died at the scene, Wayne reported.
Shortly after the band began playing its first song, a man reportedly ran onto the stage and began shooting, according to a witness who identified himself as Sean. Some members of the audience reportedly thought the man running onto the stage with a gun was part of the band's act, NBC 4's Erin Tate reported.
Witnesses said that several shots were fired at the band. Witnesses said that a bouncer at the club tackled the alleged gunman before that person was shot and killed. It was unclear as to whom shot the alleged gunman.
Alrosa Villa is a popular north Columbus nightspot for young adults, featuring rock and heavy metal bands, NBC 4 reported.
According to the band's Web site, Damageplan was touring nationally. It performed in Buffalo, N.Y., on Tuesday night and had a concert scheduled in Flint, Mich., on Thursday.
Damageplan featured former Pantera artists Dimebag Darrell and Vinnie Paul. The pair were joined by vocalist Patrick Lachman and bassist Bobzilla, according to their Web site.
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I don't know, probably nobody else here knows who he is. But that's some crazy, and sad, shit. Pantera was one of the best live bands you'd ever see...
I wonder which other member was killed.
huzzah for merging topics
WOW.
Lickety split modding!!
Who had Dimebag in the death pool ??
Some guy on the Metal Sludge boards, who claims he was there, said Vinnie Paul was the other one killed.
Take that with a grain of salt, but if true, damn...
not just for rap concerts anymore.
black or white, rap or rock, crazy's still crazy
Looks like someone stuck their dick in the wrong place. Oh well. At least now we know what happened to RottenVinny
this is some really sad news, not just for the loss of Dime & Vinnie, but for the fact that people are this fucked up.
And as Sir O said, Pantera was one of the best metal bands ever to grace a stage...this is just awful.
gays getting married caused this. God has a way at getting back at immoral people. They all deserved it.
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Deadly Ohio nightclub attack baffles police
No apparent motive for rampage that left 5 dead, including gunman
Paul Vernon / AP
MSNBC staff and news service reports
Updated: 1:21 p.m. ET Dec. 9, 2004COLUMBUS, Ohio - Police said Thursday they have found no apparent motive for a shooting rampage at an Ohio nightclub that left five people dead, including the gunman and top heavy metal guitarist “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott.
The gunman had a hostage in a headlock and appeared to be preparing to kill him when an officer responding to reports of a shooting at the nightclub opened fire and killed the gunman, police spokesman Sgt. Brent Mull said. The hostage escaped uninjured, Mull said.
Two other people were hospitalized. Police said one was in intensive care and the other stable.
Police identified the gunman as Nathan Gale, 25, of Marysville, 25 miles northwest of Columbus. Police said they had no information on a motive or any connection to Abbott or his band, the Texas-based group Damageplan.
Band was playing first song
Damageplan had just begun its first song at Alrosa Villa club Wednesday night when the gunman climbed onstage, started yelling and shot Abbott five or six times at point-blank range, witness Chris Couch said.
Mull said the gunman’s exact statement was unclear because of the loud music. He said some witnesses reported hearing an accusation about Abbott breaking up his former band, thrash-rock pioneer Pantera, but it could not be confirmed whether the speaker was the gunman or a fan.
Couch, 22, said the man was wearing a hooded sweat shirt and was followed by a bouncer and another club employee.
Couch said that after firing on the guitarist, the gunman shot a bouncer who had pulled him off the musician, while fans surged toward the exit. The gunman then fired into the crowd of more than 250 people, Mull said.
Officer arrives within two minutes
Mull said Officer James D. Niggemeyer, patrolling nearby, arrived within two minutes of hearing the call. Niggemeyer, 31, saw one person lying dead and the suspect holding onto another “pretty much in a headlock,” Mull said.
He said the hostage, “probably a fan, maybe someone who worked with the band,” was able to maneuver out of the way before the officer fired.
Mull praised Niggemeyer’s response.
“If the officer wasn’t as close as he was, I think this would have been a lot worse,” he said. “It was a chaotic scene, just a horrific scene.”
Besides Abbott and Gale, police said the dead included Nathan Bray, 23, and Erin Halk, 29. Police said the name of the fifth person killed was being withheld pending notification of family.
Couch said he believed the shooter had a plan. “It was definitely a grudge. It was against something,” he said.
‘We may never know a motive’
Mull said he believed there was amateur video that officers could view for clues but that police had no answers yet. “We may never know a motive for this, unless he left a note,” Mull said.
Gale has a minor police record in Marysville, said Police Chief Floyd Golden. He was pulled over for driving with a suspended license last month.
Thursday morning, a dozen yellow roses, still in plastic wrap, lay near the entry to the low-slung beige building that since 1974 has hosted mostly heavy metal acts. The 641-person-capacity club, just off a freeway exit on the city’s north side, sits amid motels, small businesses and office complexes.
Dozens of messages were posted to the band’s Web site after the shootings.
‘The worst day in metal history’
“This is the worst day in metal history,” one posting read.
“The metal world feels your pain,” another wrote.
Damageplan’s debut album, “New Found Power,” which was released in February by Elektra, was produced by Abbott and his brother, drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott. Other band members are vocalist Patrick Lachman and bassist Bob Zilla.
Earlier, the brothers had been members of the Grammy-nominated Pantera, whose popularity soared in the early 1990s with a fast, aggressive sound.
“Damageplan carries on the tradition Pantera started, the ... hell-raising tradition we were all about,” Vinnie Paul Abbott told The Dallas Morning News in October.
“It took awhile for some of the Pantera fans to accept it; we knew that was gonna be the case,” he said. “Change is something that people have a hard time accepting. But me and Dime intended on doing this our whole lives.”
The shootings came exactly 24 years after John Lennon was shot to death outside his New York apartment building by a deranged fan.
how wacky
was catcher in the rye found anywhere?
drusilla Wrote:The shootings came exactly 24 years after John Lennon was shot to death outside his New York apartment building by a deranged fan.
how wacky
Because Pantera was so much like the Beatles.
revolutionary! GET IT!
yeah, that might be one of the worst names ever.
I, for one, aint feeling too good about this. He was a huge influence during my early years playing, and i met him in mississippi at a bar while i was in the navy. He paid for my beers and bullshitted with me and my friends all night. Just a real down to earth good guy.