Denver Police On The Lookout For CRADLE OF FILTH Concert Diver
November 29, 2004, 20 years ago
Colorado’s DenverPost.com (www.denverpost.com) has issued the following report from staff writer Manny Gonzales:
Denver police are on the lookout for a man who dove into an audience during a heavy metal concert at the Ogden Theatre, critically injuring a 28-year-old New Mexico woman.
Valarie Markle, a waitress from Farmington, N.M., suffered a broken neck and was in intensive care Saturday at Denver Health Medical Center, her husband said.
Markle had undergone surgery recently, and there is concern she might be left partially paralyzed, her husband said.
"It didn't happen until the last few seconds of the last song," husband Tige Markle said Saturday. "We didn't even realize what was happening till the band walked off the stage."The incident occurred late Monday (October 22nd) during a performance by Cradle of Filth, presented by MTV2 Headbanger's Ball, at the venue at 935 E. Colfax Ave., police said.
A man described as heavy-set climbed atop a guard railing near the stage and jumped on top of the 5-foot-5, 150-pound woman, driving her head to the floor, police said.
The man then ran into the crowd and could not be found, police said.
Tige Markle said he was upset with concert security for not preventing the man from diving into the crowd. A representative of the theater could not be reached Saturday.
