Dimebag Darrell(Damage Plan, Pantera) Shot Dead...

[imax2268]

This really sucks man...really sucks...!



Damageplan guitarist Dimebag Darrell (born Darrell Abbott) was shot dead at the Alrosa Villa nightclub in Columbus, Ohio, last night. Soon after the band began playing, a gunman charged the stage and began firing at the band and into the crowd. Three others were killed before a police officer fatally shot the gunman. Abbott, 38, was formerly a member of Texas thrash metal giants Pantera.

The shooter -- identified as Nathan Gale, 25, of Marysville, Ohio -- dressed in a hooded sweatshirt and hockey jersey, jumped onstage at about 10 p.m., just as Damageplan were beginning their first song. Gale then shot Abbott in the chest five or six times at close range and then turned his gun on the crowd of hundreds. Among those killed were fan Nathan Bray, 23, and Erin Halk, 29, who was either a fan or band employee -- the third victim and two wounded, currently at Riverside Methodist Hospital, have not yet been named.

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/6660116/damageplan?pageid=rs.NewsArchive&pageregion=mainRegion&rnd=1102626009857&has-player=false

[Kat45]

1. I've been hearing this story on the news today,

and I didn't even know they were talking about Dimebag Darrell because I didn't know the name of his new band. THey'd mention the band's name and that was it. Then they later said the guitarist was killed. Then the last time I saw the story, they said guitarist "Darrell Abbott," and I said, oh shit, that must be Dimebag Darrell. Wow! That's really fucked up.