New Report Suggests NATHAN GALE Tried To Assault DIMEBAG DARELL Once Before

Rumors are continuing to run rampant that Nathan Gale might have tried to assault "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott once before prior to the shooting incident at a Columbus, Ohio nightclub that claimed the lives of the guitarist and four others.

On Dec. 11 — three days after Dimebag's death — BLABBERMOUTH.NET ran the following report from a web site visitor:

"The information I have concerning the incident in the Columbus nightclub was that a friend of mine went to see DAMAGEPLAN in Cincinnati over the summer. He said there was a large man there that jumped on stage right after Dimebag came out, and the man tried to assault him. But he was stopped by security.

"After I heard what happened Wednesday night, I wondered if this was the same man in Columbus, because he was also described as a large man.

"My friend is now on active duty so I was not able to ask him about it. I did call the Columbus Police [Department] and they told me a couple people had called them already and told them what had happened in Cincinnati.

"[This information] may not be much, but maybe if security had been better, this guy might not have been able to get on stage two times in a row, if in fact this was the same man both times, and all this might have been prevented."

Seemingly corroborating the above story is the following message we received earlier today from another BLABBERMOUTH.NET visitor, Brian from Urbana, Ohio:

"I attended the HATEBREED show on December 20th at Bogarts in Cincinnati. I originally was going to see this show at the Alrosa Villa on the 21st, but it was canceled for obvious reasons. Well as I was going in, there were two security guards patting people down, and the one that was NOT patting me down said something that caught my attention. He was talking with another employee about the shooting and I CLEARLY heard him say that it was, in fact, Nathan Gale that had tried to get on the stage right after DAMAGEPLAN had got on at Bogart's during the Headbangers Ball Tour with HATEBREED and DAMAGEPLAN. He remembered for sure that it was Gale because he was one of the guards present when Gale tried to get onstage. So, yes the rumor that was previously reported on [BLABBERMOUTH.NET] is, in fact, true.

"On another note, HATEBREED performed 'Last Breath' and dedicated it to Dimebag, and Jamey [Jasta, HATEBREED frontman] was almost in tears the whole song."