Report: Band Plays On At Alrosa — Just Not As Frequently
December 8, 2006Aaron Beck of The Columbus Dispatch reports:
During a recent concert at the Alrosa Villa, owner Rick Cautela carried on a conversation while keeping an eye on two poker-faced security guards aggressively patting down customers at the front door.
"We feel pretty safe in here, but, you know, the same thing could happen all over again — in any place," said Cautela, standing behind the bar he has tended for more than three decades.
"I'd be more afraid to work in a little neighborhood bar. They can't even afford people (security) to search."
Two years ago today, Marysville resident Nathan Gale shot seven people inside the North Side nightclub.
Four died — including ex-PANTERA guitarist Darrell "Dimebag" Abbott.
DAMAGEPLAN, his Texas heavy-metal band, had just started to play when Gale, a former Marine, climbed over a security fence about 10 p.m., walked past a guard on the patio and entered through the door.
He quickly made his way onto the stage, where he began firing a handgun.
Within three minutes, Abbott as well as DAMAGEPLAN crew member Jeffrey "Mayhem" Thompson, club guard Erin Halk and patron Nathan Bray were dead.
Gale, too, was killed — shot by Columbus Police Officer James Niggemeyer.
Two other crew members, Christopher Paluska and John Brooks, and patron Travis Burnett were wounded.
Read the entire article at The Columbus Dispatch.
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