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Cop That Took Down Dimebag's Killer Lost His Career

12/09/2014
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(Classic Rock) The police officer who ended the murder rampage that killed Dimebag Darrell Abbott lost his career as a result of the aftermath. James Niggemeyer shot dead Nathan Gale in the Alrosa Villa night club, Columbus, Ohio, on December 8, 2004, soon after he'd killed Pantera icon Dimebag and three others, and injured another seven.

But he had to leave the police force three years later, and says he's never recovered from the emotional pain of the horror incident. Niggemeyer tells the Columbus Dispatch: "I was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and severe anxiety disorder.

"I found out that you don't have any control over your brain. It's going to do what it's going to do. Cops are regular human beings - things affect us the same way they affect everyday citizens. We relive it and have to deal with it."

After being relieved of frontline duty, he was finally removed from the police, although he still works for the city. "It changed my career path, not for the better," he reflects. Read more here.

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