Dimebag Darrel from Pantera is Dead!!!

[samoth]

Mad gunman got up on stage tonight in Columbus, OH during Damage Plan's set and opened fire -- Dimebag is dead, Vinnie Paul is in the hospital. Others are dead, including several from the audience. When the police got there, the gunman apparently took a hostage.

This is the preliminary... the news just hit the AM news stations around Milwaukee. This will be all over the media tomorrow.

No, this is not a joke.

 

[Ganryu]

I heard this also. No band memebers are CONFIRMED yet from what I have heard, though the Columbus news (NBC 4) is reporting otherwise. We will have to wait anbd see. But, eyewitnesses said they saw Dime get shot 5 times. Hopefully, he will pull through. If not, RIP.

 

[Buddy_Christ]

HOLY FUCK!!!!!!!!!

tell me this isn't happening! fawk!

 

[Whiskey]

Holy shit... I can't believe this. WTF!?!

Whiskey

 

[Ulcasterdropout]

Damn.....

 

[samoth]

All of the eyewitnesses who informed us were drunk, so they could be misinformed, but AM News50 reported Dimebag as dead, and Vinnie's condition as unknown -- he was rushed to the hospital. Radio reports four others dead...

Damn.

 

[Buddy_Christ]

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/20041208-2202-nightclubshoot.html

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Whiskey]

Piss. Who the hell would do something this fucked up!?! Probably a holier than thou person thinking he was doing society a favor

Whiskey

 

[Razorguns]

HOLY SHIT. FUCK!

I've hung out with Dimebag and had beers with him last year. TOTALL COOL ass bro. One of the nicest guys you'll meet. Total pro-us, no-bullshit, no-games, got-your-back kinda guy.

Fuck.

 

[Ganryu]

From the Damageplan Board

I am writing from the Columbus area. I just got off the phone with a friend of mine who runs the lights at the Villa and is actually still there now. He has informed me that the only person confirmed dead is the shooter. Dimebag was shot, but no one has been able to confirm wether he made it through. Vinnie did not get shot. In fact, he used my friends cell phone to call his family.

All we can do now is send our good thought out to Dimebag, the rest of the band and all the other victims.