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Fact #120737

When:

Short story:

During a gig by Damage Plan in The Alrosa Villa nightclub, Columbus, Ohio, USA, a member of the audience, Nathan Gale, shoots and kills guitarist Dimebag Darrel Abbott and three others.

Full article:

James Niggemeyer (police officer) : I could see he was holding a hostage around the neck and still had a gun, so I knew that I didn't want that hostage to be killed. When he put the gun to the hostage's head, it became a now-or-never scenario: Do I let him shoot the hostage in front of everybody? Or do I take what I feel is the best shot to try to keep the hostage from being killed? ... It worked out for the best.
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