The tragedy took place on the evening of December 8th at the Alrosa Villa nightclub in Columbus, Ohio. The shooter, Nathan Gale, 25, was killed by a Columbus police officer minutes after the violence erupted. The deaths came on the twenty-fourth anniversary of the murder of John Lennon. Halk, Members of a local group, Volume Dealer, one of the opening acts, dressed in combat fatigues. Another local opener was named 12 Gauge. A construction worker from Marysville, Ohio, a blue-collar suburb twenty-five miles northwest of Columbus, Gale stood six feet three and weighed more than pounds.
He wore thick glasses and a Columbus Blue Jackets hockey jersey over a hooded sweat shirt. Club manager Rick Cautela pegged Gale as a harmless hanger-on — one without a ticket. Instead, as Damageplan took the stage, Gale jumped a six-foot-high fence and rushed into the club through a side door. Walking swiftly past pool tables, a bar and the sound booth, he reached the left side of the stage.
Witnesses thought Gale, whose head was shaved, wanted to stage-dive. He looked angry. He was walking like he was going into battle. Onstage, Gale drew a Beretta 9mm handgun and headed straight for Abbott. He just looked determined. Gale kept firing as members of the crew charged him. Gale had 35 rounds of ammunition left when he was killed. While he was proclaimed a hero, Niggemeyer suffered from severe post-traumatic stress disorder and severe anxiety and eventually quit the police force.
In he got a civilian job and was still seeing a counselor because of the emotional distress he suffered in At first, the police thought Gale shot Dimebag because the he was convinced the guitarist was responsible for breaking up Pantera, his favorite band. And obviously, he knew how to use it.
I saw what happened, and I knew exactly that the dude was on a mission, man, for whatever reason. And the kind of shit [Philip] said [to Metal Hammer ] is the kind of shit that might incite the guy that did this to do the kind of things that he did. A thorough police investigation following the shooting determined that Gale was a troubled schizophrenic who believed that the members of Pantera were stealing his thoughts.
In addition, he continued to extend an olive branch to Vinnie Paul until his passing in I love Vince. I just want to say on my end, I am an open door. Brooks was later used as a hostage and shot three times during a struggle with Gale.
Travis Burnett , the third survivor told investigators that he climbed onto the stage and challenged Gale. Gale walked past a security guard who attempted to prevent him getting into the club without a ticket. News Music News.
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