Posted on 10/23/2011 6:25:04 AM PDT by csvset
A paratransit bus driver intentionally rammed a Hells Angels biker on Interstate 580, and then dragged him about a mile, killing him, a CHP spokesman said.
The biker, who has not been identified, was traveling eastbound on I-580 in San Leandro near Grand Avenue with a small group of Hells Angels members before 4 p.m. when an altercation began, said CHP Sgt. Trent Cross. After being hit, the motorcyclist and his bike were dragged for about a mile, said San Leandro police Lt. Greg Lemmon. Eventually, the biker was released from under the East Bay Paratransit bus, but the driver kept dragging the motorcycle, which was wedged underneath the front grill, until the vehicle stopped on the shoulder just east of the 150th Avenue onramp.
The Hells Angels biker was flown to Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley, where he was pronounced dead, Lemmon said.
The bus driver has been arrested, Lemmon said. Police are interviewing four witnesses who saw the incident.
"The preliminary information they are providing was that it wasn't an accident, it was an intentional ramming," Lemmon said.
All eastbound lanes were closed from Grand Avenue to 150th Avenue so police could conduct a homicide investigation over a large swath of freeway, Cross said. The lanes were expected to remain closed until 10 or 11 p.m., he said, and there were significant traffic delays in the area.
An East Bay Paratransit manager referred calls to First Transit, a contract agency that operates the bus. The First Transit representative did not return calls.
No passengers were on board the bus during the collision, said San Leandro police Sgt. Doug Calcagno. The paratransit bus provides door-to-door service for people unable to ride regular public transit because of disabilities.
It has been a tragic autumn for the Hells Angels motorcycle club.
San Jose chapter President Jeffrey "Jethro" Pettigrew was killed outside a Nevada casino last month. At his packed funeral Oct. 15, Steve Tausan, a 52-year-old Hells Angels enforcer and friend of Pettigrew's, was shot dead.
Also on Saturday, San Jose police served a search warrant at a Stockton house for 38-year-old Steven Ruiz, whom they say killed Tausan. After a lengthy standoff, police determined he was not in the house.
How do I know a member of a criminal organization is a criminal?
Are you even serious?
Obviously you are just trolling and posting without any substantive facts. Who was this person? was he just riding with these people? was he a member? Not every member of an organization is a criminal. (otherwise every bank employee would be going to jail by now)
Instead you just cite movie fluff and assume. Government employees should not be engaged in the conduct of intentional murder “just because”. It does not matter who they hit.
Your romanticized love for biker gangs is disturbing if not uncommon.
Many other people living in a fantasy world feel the same way about the mafia for instance.
I didn’t cite any movies, the article referred to the vermin as a member of the criminal organization, yes, all members of a criminal organization are criminals by definition and one scum criminal killing another doesn’t bother me in the least.
Happy to see one less scumbag criminal off the street permanently!
Let me tell you how small the world really is. Dr. Garr, had a son named Alfred Garr Jr.and Alfie, as I knew him, and I went to camp together when I was real young. It was Garr Church’s Camp Lurecrest, sits on the bank of Lake Lure in the mountains.
I have a picture in my book, I kept as a kid, of Alfie on a bunk at the camp.
How small is that?
Also, you are correct, sometimes God lets some of rise out of the muck to tell others not to wade into it. My mother made me understand that when she told me, after I became an adult, that I should have been dead about 8 or 10 times over. One of my best friends didn’t make it out. He was killed for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, and in a place I had been many times, just a few years prior.
There, but for the Grace of God, go I.
Your world just got smaller! Alfred Garr III(Alfie, but don’t call him that)is my cousin by marriage and runs a ministry in Virginia Beach, Va.
Wasn’t Camp Lurcrest something? I remember Uncle Alfred (Alfie’s Dad)working my butt off up there. I watched him climb to the roof of the main hall several times in one night checking on the water tanks when he was 86 years old. He drove Auntie Merle and himself to Virginia Beach when he was 93. When they were getting ready to come home he had a stroke and went on to the Lord. I still miss him.
That’s amazing. I’m gonna look up the ministry on the web, and if I can find an address for him I’m gonna scan that picture in and send it to him for laughs.
That’s also amazing about Dr. Garr. I had lost track of the family. I’m sorry to hear he’s gone, but he definitely lived a full life.
I would bet you and I have crossed paths a couple of times.
Lurecrest was cool. I learned to Water-ski there. Having been raised a Methodist, it was also my first exposure to fire and brimstone Christianity (my mom’s expression). I saw people speak in tongues there for the first time, and at that age it freaked me out! LOL
I would rather not be lumped in to a group just because of my mode of transportation. It would be hard to include me because my GL1800 just doesn’t fit the mold nor does my appearance.
You gave wise advise and I thank you for it!
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