Nightclub Shooter Had 35 Rounds of Ammo When Shot

Nightclub Shooter Had 35 Rounds of Ammunition When Killed

posted Jan 14, 2005 at 4:33 PM by deathbringer. (23 Comments)

Band Photo: Damageplan (?)

The gunman who shot Damageplan (and former Pantera) guitarist, 'Dimebag' Darrell, and three others to death got off 15 shots and had 35 more rounds of ammunition when a Columbus police officer fatally shot him, authorities said. Nathan Gale, 25, of Marysville, shot and killed guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott and three others when they tried to intervene during a concert Dec. 8 at the Alrosa Villa nightclub.

Investigators said Thursday they think Gale fired 10 shots, reloaded and fired five more before Officer James Niggemeyer killed him with a single blast from a 12-gauge shotgun.

Gale used a Beretta 9mm semiautomatic handgun with a magazine that held 10 rounds. He reloaded once during the shootings. Gale had five rounds in his gun and was carrying 30 live rounds when he was killed, police said.

Investigators said Gale said nothing to Abbott during the attack. Since the shooting, friends and family have described Gale as an obsessed fan of the Damageplan guitarist's former band Pantera.

Alrosa Villa is scheduled to reopen Friday night for a benefit concert to raise money for the families of the two victims from the Columbus-area.

Source: Akron Beacon Journal

What's Next?

23 Comments on "Nightclub Shooter Had 35 Rounds of Ammo When Shot"

Member

1. ac666 writes:

f***... That just makes Officer Niggemeyer even more of a hero, I shudder to think what might have happened if he wasn't there.

# Jan 14, 2005 @ 4:48 PM ET | IP Logged

2. morningstar writes:

i didn't know cops in columbus carried shotguns.
cool, i guess you learn something new every day.

# Jan 14, 2005 @ 4:53 PM ET | IP Logged

3. LOK HIMMM writes:

NIGGEMEYER COULD HAVE USED A BOW AND ARROW, FOR ALL I CARE, JUST AS LONG AS HE TOOK "I'M A GAY DEMONS B**CH IN HELL GALE" OFF OF THIS PLANET FOREVER. OORAH NIGGEMEYER, I HOPE YOU HAD THE SHOTGUN RIGHT AGAINST HIS F**KING HEAD WHEN YOU PULLED THE TRIGGER. HIMMM!!!!

# Jan 14, 2005 @ 5:30 PM ET | IP Logged

4. morningstar writes:

i can stand on the other side of the room and see what you wrote.
anyways, i was watching Mail Call awhile ago and learned that the battle cry for the marines is spelled phonetically. it has no correct spelling.
you made me think of that LOK HIMMM.

# Jan 15, 2005 @ 12:17 AM ET | IP Logged

5. GreatSouthernTrendKillerz writes:

ok wateva the fk that means??????????
sh**, 35 rounds....... cud have been so much worse than it was, thank god Niggemeyer was there, or we cud have been sayin goodbye to Vinnie too!!!

Well, Nathan is now rottin in infamous hell.... and well........
Dimes up there wit legends....
wherever up there fkin is.........

c c

# Jan 15, 2005 @ 5:23 AM ET | IP Logged

6. LOK HIMMM writes:

SORRY MORNINGSTAR, BUT OORAH WAS AS CLOSE AS I COULD GET. TIMMYTHEGAYHATER, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? GTSK, RIGHT F**KING A RIGHT. HIMMM!!!!

# Jan 15, 2005 @ 11:31 AM ET | IP Logged

7. morningstar writes:

that's ok, you spell it how ever you think it's spelled.
phonetically means to spell something how it sounds.
you spell it OORAH, i spell it URAH. we are both right.

# Jan 15, 2005 @ 2:11 PM ET | IP Logged

8. liz writes:

your both wrong its spelt ur ugly

# Jan 15, 2005 @ 3:20 PM ET | IP Logged

9. thadeus writes:

blow it out your a**.

# Jan 15, 2005 @ 11:01 PM ET | IP Logged

10. LOK HIMMM writes:

I THINK THE REFLECTION IN YOUR MONITOR CONFUSED YOU LIZ. HIMMM!!!!

# Jan 16, 2005 @ 10:57 AM ET | IP Logged

11. liz writes:

you could be right.............................but i dont think so

# Jan 16, 2005 @ 1:53 PM ET | IP Logged

12. LOK HIMMM writes:

JUST TRYING TO HELP. HIMMM!!!!

# Jan 16, 2005 @ 1:56 PM ET | IP Logged

13. liz writes:

no prob

# Jan 16, 2005 @ 4:18 PM ET | IP Logged

14. brokenwings13 writes:

I spell it like LOK does, OORAH!!

# Jan 16, 2005 @ 5:17 PM ET | IP Logged

15. BLACK DOG writes:

I was a bouncer for 6 years someone was seriously not doing their job .

# Jan 16, 2005 @ 8:55 PM ET | IP Logged

16. formethalyne writes:

kick ass, maybe you should be an online bouncer. kick all these p****es a$$es out.

# Jan 16, 2005 @ 10:29 PM ET | IP Logged

17. BLACK DOG writes:

As I never saw PANTERA or DAMAGE PLAN LIVE that would have been great but unfortunately their are sick people in this world . I just hope event planners and other assorted people learn from this . First their were the rapes at the last WOODSTOCK FESTIVAL , Then the fire at the GREAT WHITE show and then finally DIME BAG is murderd . I don't know who was working the show because I'm in N.Y.state not OHIO but it's starting to sound just like the other incident's I've mentioned and it did not have to happen .

# Jan 16, 2005 @ 11:19 PM ET | IP Logged

18. Muffy writes:

NIGGEMEYER..I'm surprised some of you p***ys didn't post N*!#@meyer, since it sounds so close to nigga...........Everytime i see morningstar i can't help think of tuna.

# Jan 16, 2005 @ 11:34 PM ET | IP Logged

19. morningstar writes:

tuna fetish muffy?

# Jan 16, 2005 @ 11:52 PM ET | IP Logged

20. LOK HIMMM writes:

YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT, MUFF. HIMMM!!!!

# Jan 17, 2005 @ 11:06 AM ET | IP Logged

21. GreatSouthernTrendKillerz writes:

TUNA????
wat did i fukin miss (again!!!!)

# Jan 17, 2005 @ 2:03 PM ET | IP Logged

22. morningstar writes:

scroll up and look at post 18.

# Jan 17, 2005 @ 5:25 PM ET | IP Logged

23. brokenwings13 writes:

You missed nothing. You didn't miss a damn thing.

# Feb 11, 2005 @ 12:17 AM ET | IP Logged

To minimize comment spam/abuse, you cannot post comments on articles over a month old.

Nightclub Shooter Had 35 Rounds of Ammunition When Killed

What's Next?

Latest News

Hot Topics