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| From | "bob" <segarini@rogers.com> |
| Subject | Creepy... |
| Date | Fri, 10 Dec 2004 13:20:06 -0500 |
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You meet these kinds of "fans" all the time...but most of them,
(thankfully), don't start shooting people. We had this guy in Montreal,
Crazy Mike, who was a big, oafish, thouroughly intimidating bully, that used
to show up at bands gigs in the West Island and terrorize them and their
girlfriends. Once, he brought a pair of trained, viscious dogs into the
Edgewater during a sound check and threatened to turn them loose on the band
with a "kill" command.
Eventually, he was found in the woods, two bullets in him, taken out by
another dangerous little guy, who was tired of having to share his turf.
My sympathy goes out to Abbot's family and friends...it's a shame his killer
didn't get nicked in time.
It's only Rock and Roll, folks...certainly not worth killing, (or dying),
for...and especially odious being cut down by such an obviously troubled
creep. How do guys like this manage to exist under the radar until it's too
late?
bob
December 10, 2004
Nightclub shooter was Pantera fan
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Even at the tattoo parlour, 25-year-old Nathan Gale
made people uneasy, staring and locking them into conversations about heavy
metal music. But no one pegged the semi-pro football player who psyched
himself up before games by piping thrash-rock legends Pantera into his
headphones as the type to go on a shooting rampage.
Police say they may never know why Gale charged the stage at a heavy-metal
rock show and gunned down four people, including former Pantera guitarist
"Dimebag" Darrell Abbott, one of metal rock's most-revered guitarists.
Some witnesses said Gale began his rampage by yelling out accusations that
Abbott broke up Pantera, one of the most popular heavy metal bands of the
1990s. Sgt. Brent Mull said police had not verified those reports.
"We may never know a motive for this, unless he left a note," Mull said.
Abbott, 38, left Pantera with his brother, drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott, to
form the band Damageplan, which had just begun its first song at the club
Alrosa Villa on Wednesday night when Gale dodged two band members, grabbed
Darrell Abbott and shot him at least five times in the head.
"He grabbed Dimebag with one hand and shot him with the other," said Kevin
Minerd, among the 500 people packed into the smoke-filled nightclub to see
Abbott's new band.
In less than five minutes, Gale had shot three others, including Erin Halk,
29, a club employee who loaded band equipment; fan Nathan Bray, 23, of
nearby Grove City, and Jeff Thompson, 40, a bodyguard for the band.
Two people employed by the band, Chris Paluska and John Brooks, were in
Riverside Hospital on Friday morning with Paluska listed in good condition
and Brooks serious.
An imposing figure, Gale was on the offensive line for the semi-pro Lima
Thunder in northwest Ohio, coach Mark Green said Thursday. Gale listened to
Pantera on headphones before games during his one season with the team,
Green said.
"You wouldn't look at him and think he was capable of doing something like
this," Green said. "It wasn't like he was a loner."
Gale made workers and customers uneasy at the Bears Den Tattoo Studio in
Marysville, 40 kilometres northwest of Columbus, where he stared at people
and forced them into conversations, said manager Lucas Bender.
"He comes in here and likes to hang out when he's not wanted," Bender said.
"The most pointless conversations."
A tattoo artist at the studio, Bo Toler, said Gale was at the studio
Wednesday between 5 and 6 p.m. Gale asked about having the studio order
tattoo equipment for him and Toler said he told him no. Gale then got very
angry and started yelling at him, he said.
"Last night was actually the first time I noticed his temper," Toler said
Thursday. "After the argument we had he kind of walked out with an attitude.
He didn't even say goodbye."
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