How did someone get a gun in..? I thought concerts had better security then that
1) The fucking retarded security team apparently wasn't even patting people down.
2) He leapt over an 8-foot wooden fence and ran past the guards and into the auditorium. They chased him through the crowd, but were unable to catch him before he climbed onto the stage. At Pantera/Damageplan concerts, it's a fairly regular thing for fans to jump onstage and surf the crowd. Dime and Vinnie are all about fan interaction, so they don't have any issues with them coming up onstage and jumping off. When the guy leapt up there, none of the bandmembers thought twice about it until he ran behind Dime and produced a gun from beneath his jacket. He shot Darrell five times through the head. Didn't even know what happened. He was in the middle of a solo and was dead before he hit the ground.
This is the worst news I've recieved all year. Dimebag Darrell was a legend, and didn't deserve this. I hope the son of a bitch responsible spends eternity in Hell, his flesh flayed from his body and his innards pulled free from his torso. Murdering, cowardly sack of shit. He deserves nothing short of eternal pain and suffering.
There were apparently five or six people crowding around his body, trying to perform first aid. It wasn't a thing of logic, but of shock and horror. They acted irrationally because they couldn't believe they just watched one of their idols murdered onstage.
Jesus Christ, this has never fucking happened before. How many musicians can you name who were murdered by another human being onstage. I can't think of a single one.
Dime didn't deserve this. He's one of the most influential metal musicians of the last decade and a half.
Go download some of Pantera's songs, King. "Cowboys From Hell", "Walk" and "5 Minutes Alone" are a good place to start.
Some of the articles I've read have said that the shooter was yelling at Dime, blaming him for breaking up Pantera after he shot him. Why the fuck would you kill a member, thereby preventing the band from ever being able to reunite?
I just can't understand this. Of all the musicians in the entire world, why'd it have to be him?