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Post by Mike on Dec 10, 2004 11:32:18 GMT
Former Pantera guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell was shot dead on Wednesday night while perfoming with his current band, Damageplan.
A gunman jumped on stage and killed four people.
The gunman was heard to be blaming Dimebag for splitting up Pantera, which led to lead singer Phil Anselmo not being able to afford his heroin addiction.
The man was shot dead by a police officer.
A band member and security guard were shot dead. I'm not too sure who the other dead person was.
Even if you don't like his music, still very sad.
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Post by pinksheep on Dec 10, 2004 12:30:55 GMT
yea my boyfriend is really upset about this as dimebag was an inspiration to him and is why he played guitar...
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Post by Felix on Dec 10, 2004 12:52:26 GMT
Two band members are dead, I think.
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Post by wedge69 on Dec 10, 2004 13:15:42 GMT
Asre you sure, I thought it was just Dimebag?
The police claim they don't havea motive. Even though all those whitnesses calimed that they had heard the guys say he was going todo it because he broke up Pantera, the police say there was too much noise to be sure!
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Post by Mike on Dec 10, 2004 13:37:36 GMT
The other dead member is believed to be Pat Lachman.
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Post by wedge69 on Dec 10, 2004 14:27:18 GMT
Are you sure?
The other men killed were named as club employee Erin Halk, 29, fan Nathan Bray, 23, and Jeff Thompson, 40, who was affiliated with the band.
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Post by Collie on Dec 10, 2004 20:01:33 GMT
Crikey, nutters are everywhere. How stupid to get up on stage and start shooting at a band.
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Post by LW on Dec 16, 2004 11:28:51 GMT
The Gunman who killed four people last week at a heavy-metal concert was schizophrenic, his former boss told The Dispatch last night. "I would always say, 'Are you Ok?' Occasionally I'd ask him if he was taking his medication and because we were friends, I felt I could do that," said Rich Cencula, who owns the Minit Lube on North Main Street in Marysville." He always told me that he was." Nathan Gale, 25, was killed by a single shotgun blast from a Police Officer after Gale killed four people and wounded two others during a concert Dec. 8 at the Alrosa Villa nightclub on the North side. The shootings occurred in front of about 400 fans during the opening song by Damageplan. Gale had worked for Cencula from October 2003 until May of this year, getting the job after an administrator with a military veterans group contacted Cencula. The officer told Cencula that he had a perfect employee for him, a man who had just been released from the Marines with a background in diesel mechanics. So Cencula interviewed Gale. "He told me he had a medical discharge and I asked him what it was," Cencula said. "He told me it was schizophrenia. "By then, I'd already talked to him long enough to know I didn't need to worry about that." Yesterday, a women who said she was Gale's mother spoke with WCMH-TV (Channel 4), though she would not allow her face to be shown on air. She verified that her son had been released from the Marine Corps last year on a medical discharge because of paranoid schizophrenia. Witnesses at the Alrosa Villa nightclub, 5055 Sinclair Rd. Columbus, Ohio. Said Gale walked onstage and shot Damageplan's lead guitarist, Darrell"Dimebag" Abbott, at point-blank range, then began shooting at other band members and the audience. Abbott was killed along with band members Jeff Thompson, 40, and two local men, Nathan Bray, 23, of Grove City, and Erin Halk, 29, of the North-west side. Injured were band tour manager, Chris Paluska, who remains in fair condition at Riverside Methodist Hospital, and John Brooks, a drum technician with the band who has since returned home to Texas. Gale had told Friends that he believed Abbott's former band, Pantera, had stolen lyrics from him. "He had it in his head that those where his lyrics," his mother told channel 4. "And nobody was going to change his mind." The gun he used was a Beretta 9 mm semiautomatic handgun that he used at the Alrosa Villa. The purchase occured before his diagnosis. Meanwhile, the Alrosa Villa remains closed. Fans of guitarist Abbott continued to pay their respects yesterday at a makeshift shrine outside the club. (Hope this will answer a lot of questions for all you fans). (This is a news story from The Columbus Dispatch in Columbus). Thursday December 16, 2004.
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Post by Mike on Dec 16, 2004 12:22:41 GMT
Thanks.
I read a lot of that in yesterdays copy of Kerrang!
They didn't have all the answers, as the news was unfolding as they were going to press.
There's going to be a Dimebag tribute edition next week with everything you need to know.
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