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:no:Quote5 Dead In Ohio Nightclub Shooting
(AP) A man walked onstage in a crowded nightclub during a rock concert Wednesday night and opened fire on the band, killing at least four people and wounding at least two others. The gunman then began firing into the crowd before he was shot to death by police, authorities said.
Members of the heavy metal band Damageplan had just begun their first song at the Alrosa Villa when the man opened fire, initially targeting guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott, a witness said. According to the band\'s Web site, Abbott and another member, drummer Vinnie Paul, who also played for the heavy metal band Pantera.
The witness, 22-year-old Chris Couch, said he was standing about 30 feet away from the stage when he noticed a man wearing a hooded sweatshirt and hockey jersey walk up to the stage, followed by a bouncer and another club employee.
The man in the jersey climbed onto the stage, started yelling and shot the guitarist five or six times at close range, Couch said. He said the gunman also shot a bouncer who pulled him off the musician.
Columbus police spokesman Sgt. Brent Mull said that after shooting at members of the band, the gunman fired into the crowd. Mull said a police officer who arrived shortly after the shooting began shot and killed the gunman.
"If the officer wasn\'t as close as he was, I think this would have been a lot worse," he said. "It was a chaotic scene, just a horrific scene."
Mull wouldn\'t confirm the identities of the victims. He said more people could have been shot and left the scene before authorities arrived.
After the shooting began, Couch and a friend headed for the exit along with a tide of hundreds of fans.
"It was definitely a grudge. It was against something," Couch said.
Amanda Stankus, 19, who attended the show with Couch, said she initially thought the shooting was part of the show. "I just saw the guitarist fall down, and we decided to get out of there," she said.
Other members of Damageplan include vocalist Patrick Lachman and bass player Bob Zilla, according to the band\'s Web site.
A message left with Atlantic Records, which oversees the record label on which Damageplan records, was not immediately returned.
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This is not good.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (CNN) -- A gunman stormed the stage during a heavy metal concert in Columbus, Ohio, on Wednesday night, firing at the band and audience and killing four people before a police officer shot and killed him, according to police.
One of the dead was guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott. The gunman also wounded two people.
The man was "targeting members in the band," Columbus police Sgt. Brent Mull said.
Before the gunman was shot, police said, he grabbed a hostage and fired into the crowd. It was not clear what happened to the hostage.
The attack came shortly after the band, Damageplan, began its performance at the Alrosa Villa nightclub on Columbus\' north end.
One of the wounded is in critical condition, and the other is hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, police said. Two others were injured in the incident and treated at the scene, although the nature of their injuries was not clear.
According to witnesses, the gunman initially shot the band\'s guitarist, Dimebag Darrell.
Darrell, 38, and his brother, Vinnie Paul, 40, formed Damageplan after Pantera -- a group they formed in the 1980s -- broke up last year. Their father is Jerry Abbott, a country and western songwriter and producer.
Police were notified of the shooting around 10:18 p.m., Mull said. A uniformed police officer who was near the scene slipped into the venue from a back entrance, confronted the gunman during the rampage and killed him.
"If not for the officer who showed up, there would have been more dead," Mull said.
Witnesses described the shooter as a heavyset man, wearing a Columbus Blue Jackets hockey jersey.
Police roped off a huge area of the nightclub\'s parking lot, as 60 detectives questioned hundreds of witnesses. Police brought in buses to keep the witnesses warm as they waited to be questioned.
Calvin Bota said he saw the shooting from the mosh pit right in front of the stage, shortly after the band began playing.
"Somebody came -- I don\'t know where they came from, out of the audience or whatnot -- but they come onto (the) stage and ... he shot the guitarist at first, fired a couple of other shots and then he hid behind the stage a little bit," Bota told CNN affiliate WSYX.
"Everybody started scattering, you know, there\'s mayhem everywhere. And then a police officer came into the building, you know, came in professional with his gun raised and then he proceeded to shoot the guy."
Gerald Caudill said the gunman shot the guitarist at least four times.
"I was up close to the stage and I just saw some guy run up on the side of the stage and I heard some shots and I saw (drummer) Vinnie (Paul) fall and somebody jumped on top of Vinnie, and the guy just stayed around the stage and started shooting other people," Caudill said.
"I saw wounded people all over the place, out in the parking lot, inside," he said. "It just didn\'t sound like gunshots or anything, it didn\'t occur to me that something like that was happening." -
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holy ****..any chance of there being some loonies at sbc tonite tryin to take out members of smokin boomers??
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I\'m sure there will be plenty of "Joeys" though!!!
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id take a bullet for any member of the boomers..well,maybe excapt ian or seanie....lol
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Originally posted by freddiewaht
id take a bullet for any member of the boomers..well,maybe excapt ian or seanie....lol
Thanks Wah. You make me feel like "a million dollars". -
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This is so bad........
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jesus christ.. reports are now saying the shooter was shouting at darrell before he shot him - "you broke up pantera. you ruined my life."
sick.
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good thing breakfast fans aren\'t crazy....
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Originally posted by davepeck
jesus christ.. reports are now saying the shooter was shouting at darrell before he shot him - "you broke up pantera. you ruined my life."
sick.
Not the first psycho "fan" to date - remember John Lennon?
I was never a big fan of Pantera myself, but have a lot of respect for Dimebag as a guitarist and musician. What I had heard was pretty good for its genre. This is indeed a sad event. -
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Originally posted by boombox
Not the first psycho "fan" to date - remember John Lennon?
yep. killed on the same day as dimebag, 24 years earlier.
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yea,i doubt that was premeditated though..that maniac probably never heard of john lennon man
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