A Survivor of the Waco Biker Shooting Talks about the Aftermath, Claims Police Didn't Help Wounded

Dallas Observer ^ | 1/19/16 | Julie Lyons

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John Wilson, who leads the McLennan County chapter of the Cossacks Motorcycle Club, was in the Waco Twin Peaks parking lot when the shooting broke out on May 17 between the Bandidos and Cossacks. His son Jake Wilson was also there. John Wilson owns Legend Cycles in Waco. He and his son were arrested, along with 175 others, and later indicted on organized crime charges. John Wilson is one of the only Cossacks speaking out about what happened that day, and he insists that many of those arrested are innocent. His interview with Julie Lyons is excerpted here.

Wilson begins by telling how Jake Rhyne, one of seven Cossacks killed that day, lay bleeding for 30 to 45 minutes without receiving medical attention. Wilson wanted to help, and he recounts his conversation with a Waco police officer:

John Wilson: ... I ask him if several of us couldn't pick up Jake along with some other ones that were wounded and carry them to the ambulances, and he basically told me that if I didn't want to get shot, I wouldn't.

[So the police] made no attempt during that time to give first aid or any kind of aid to Jake.

No. Absolutely not. Every one of those cop cars had some kind of first aid kit in 'em. And not a single one at any time walked over, brought us a first aid kit, offered to tie a tourniquet on anybody, patch a hole, anything. Our guys were sitting there with nothing but bandannas in their hands trying to stuff bullet holes.

Could you tell from your vantage point looking at Jake [Rhyne] if there was a lot of blood loss?

Yes.

So it's possible -- I'm not a doctor, of course, and neither are you -- that he bled out.

Well, I have to assume that those guys that were alive 30 minutes after the fact that died without medical care, you know, we can only make assumptions, but their odds of survival would have been better if they'd had medical care. Would they have died anyway? Maybe. As you say, I'm not a doctor. But they certainly deserved the opportunity to try to live. And to try to recover from it. And the opportunity was sitting right there in an ambulance 50 yards away that they weren't allowed access to.

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