Former Pantera Guitarist Murdered on Stage
COLUMBUS, Ohio - A gunman charged onstage at a packed nightclub and opened fire on the band and crowd, killing top heavy metal guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott and three other people before a police officer shot him to death, authorities and witnesses said.
Police spokeswoman Sherry Mercurio identified three of the victims of Wednesday's shooting as Abbott, who played for the Texas-based band Damageplan, and two other men, Nathan Bray, 23; and Erin Halk, 29.
She identified the gunman as Nathan Gale, 25, of Marysville, 25 miles northwest of Columbus. She said there was no information on a motive or any connection to the band.
Damageplan had just begun its first song at Alrosa Villa club when the man shot Abbott five or six times at point-blank range, a witness said.
Abbott, 38, one of metal's top guitarists, and his brother, Damageplan drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott, were members of Pantera, the Grammy-nominated thrash-rock pioneer that enjoyed wide popularity in the early 1990s.
From what I hear the dude killed Dimebag Darrell because he was mad at Pantera breaking up. Just shows you the power Pantera had over people. And let's face it, a metal-head from Ohio was probably not the brightest bulb on the X-mas tree. And, leave it to Ohio to fuck-up the presidential race and kill a guitar madman in the a matter of months. Maybe that ho' from the Pretenders did say it best: "oh, hey.. way to go OH-HI-O". Fuckin' idiots.
COLUMBUS, Ohio - A gunman charged onstage at a packed nightclub and opened fire on the band and crowd, killing top heavy metal guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott and three other people before a police officer shot him to death, authorities and witnesses said.
Police spokeswoman Sherry Mercurio identified three of the victims of Wednesday's shooting as Abbott, who played for the Texas-based band Damageplan, and two other men, Nathan Bray, 23; and Erin Halk, 29.
She identified the gunman as Nathan Gale, 25, of Marysville, 25 miles northwest of Columbus. She said there was no information on a motive or any connection to the band.
Damageplan had just begun its first song at Alrosa Villa club when the man shot Abbott five or six times at point-blank range, a witness said.
Abbott, 38, one of metal's top guitarists, and his brother, Damageplan drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott, were members of Pantera, the Grammy-nominated thrash-rock pioneer that enjoyed wide popularity in the early 1990s.
From what I hear the dude killed Dimebag Darrell because he was mad at Pantera breaking up. Just shows you the power Pantera had over people. And let's face it, a metal-head from Ohio was probably not the brightest bulb on the X-mas tree. And, leave it to Ohio to fuck-up the presidential race and kill a guitar madman in the a matter of months. Maybe that ho' from the Pretenders did say it best: "oh, hey.. way to go OH-HI-O". Fuckin' idiots.
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