Security Experts: DIMEBAG's Murder Could Have Been Prevented

December 13, 2004

MTV.com reports: The onstage murder of "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott leaves not just DAMAGEPLAN fans, but concertgoers everywhere, with many troubling concerns. Chief among them was that the tragedy might have been prevented for less than $50, the price of a handheld metal detector.

"It should have been a common practice. It should have been something they had," said Paul Wertheimer of Crowd Management Strategies, a consulting firm specializing in concert safety. "If it was used right, it would have caught the gun and you would have never heard about it. It would have been an item in the police blotter of the Columbus Dispatch."

Wertheimer, who's made a career out of studying concert safety, has been called on to supply his expertise in the wakes of such disasters as Denmark's 2000 Roskilde festival, where nine fans were crushed to death, and last year's nightclub fires in Rhode Island and Chicago, which killed more than 120 people combined. Read more.

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