Heavy Metal Massacre: Pantera Guitarist Shot and Killed

elchrist

Former Pantera Guitarist Killed on Stage
Source: AP

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A gunman charged onstage at a packed nightclub and opened fire on the band and the 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.

Columbus police department spokeswoman Sherry Mercurio identified three of the victims of Wednesday's shooting as Abbott, guitarist with the heavy metal rock band Damageplan, and two other men, Nathan Bray and Erin Halk.

Damageplan had just begun their first song at the Alrosa Villa when the man opened fire, first targeting Abbott, shooting him multiple 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 original members of Grammy-nominated thrash rock pioneers Pantera, one of the most popular metal bands of the early 1990s.

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There must be some ex-metalicos on C.com that shedded a few tears upon hearing the news.

Radiodude · Posted: 09 Dec 2004 12:43 PM Post subject:

its very sad.

elchrist · Posted: 09 Dec 2004 01:16 PM Post subject:

Diablo weeps tonight.

Radiodude · Posted: 09 Dec 2004 01:19 PM Post subject:

pato · Posted: 09 Dec 2004 02:10 PM Post subject:

How the fuck did that dude introduce that gun into the bar? Isn't america supposed to be safer post 9/11? Instead of a gun, an Al-Qaeda could've easily introduced a bomb and killed everybody present, instead of just 5 people.

elchrist · Posted: 09 Dec 2004 02:13 PM Post subject:

pato · Posted: 09 Dec 2004 02:36 PM Post subject:

Don't freaking talk to me, I still haven't figured out what RTFM means.

elchrist · Posted: 09 Dec 2004 02:49 PM Post subject:

gimme_a_vicodin · Posted: 11 Dec 2004 02:46 PM Post subject:

dude that is fucking crazy....imma play "walk" all day.

Radiodude · Posted: 14 Dec 2004 09:53 AM Post subject: