Posted on 05/02/2017 6:10:45 PM PDT by Elderberry
A biker who was shot during the May 2015 Twin Peaks shootout but not arrested filed a lawsuit Tuesday in an attempt to recover his medical expenses.
William Richardson, of Lexington, was shot in the lower torso during the melee at Twin Peaks and is listed in the criminal indictments as one of about 20 victims of the 155 indicted bikers.
Richardson's attorney, Matthew Wright, of Rosebud, said Richardson, an employee of the Texas A&M University transportation division, underwent surgery and was hospitalized.
“Mr. Richardson had medical expenses from being shot," Wright said. "The lawsuit was filed to protect his rights regarding his injury claim."
Richardson's suit, filed in Waco's 74th State District Court, names as defendants Twin Peaks Investment; Front Burner Restaurant GP; former Waco Police Chief Brent Stroman; Waco police Detective Manuel Chavez; McLennan County Sheriff Parnell McNamara; and an unknown officer identified in the lawsuit as John Doe.
The suit seeks more than $200,000 but less than $1 million.
The suit alleges officials at Front Burner, which operated the Waco Twin Peaks franchise, were warned by law enforcement before the Sunday afternoon meeting of the Texas Confederation of Clubs & Independents of increasing friction between the Bandidos and Cossacks motorcycle groups but hosted the meeting anyway.
The restaurant, which never reopened after the shootout, "went ahead with the promotion and hosting of the COC meeting in the hopes of securing profit, regardless of the potential loss of life or injury to people in attendance," the suit alleges.
The lawsuit claims the deaths of nine bikers and injuries to at least 20 others were compounded by the mass arrests "and wrongful detention of innocent individuals."
"During this period of detention, prior to transporting the detained off scene, neither law enforcement officers under control of defendant Chavez, defendant Stroman or defendant McNamara rendered aid to detainees who were injured nor did they call for emergency medical assistance," the suit alleges.
Richardson was not provided immediate medial attention by restaurant or law enforcement officials, the lawsuit claims.
"The plaintiff and several other detainees pleaded with law enforcement to call for emergency medical assistance or to render emergency first aid," the suit states. "After repeated attempts to secure emergency aid, a private citizen provided a pickup truck and offered to take the plaintiff to Hillcrest Medical Center."
Richardson doesn't know who shot him but claims the unknown officer referred to as John Doe acted intentionally, knowingly and recklessly by shooting into a crowd gathered at a public restaurant."
He claims that Stroman, Chavez, McNamara and Doe failed to take action to avoid a foreseeable risk of injury to others and used excessive force that violated Richardson's rights.
"There are pending criminal matters and civil lawsuits, and the city of Waco chooses to litigate these matters in the courts," Waco City Attorney Jennifer Richie said.
Attorneys for Twin Peaks and McNamara did not return phone messages Tuesday afternoon.
You read my mind.
I am assuming that the round that made the wound in Richardson has been recovered and the medical staff at the hospital can attest to what it was. Now with the corrupt City of Whacko and McLennan County involved, there may have been at attempt to recover that projectile and “dispose of it.” But failing that, if it can be determined that Richardson’s wound was a .223/5.56, Waco is done as a city, because this guy will own it lock stock and barrel. The new name, Richardsonvill has a good ring to it! Plus all the crap Richardson endured in order to get medical attention will only add to Whacko’s woes. I hope I live to see the day when this guy gets retribution. I want to drink to the end of Whacko as a Texas city. It is indeed a bad seed, and decent Texans should agree (that leaves Texas Gator out, because he thinks all bikers “deserve to be killed!”).
Hope he kept the round that hit him...
Not me but I wouldn’t be surprised that the would abuse children. After all, the were carrying kiddie porn when taken in.
” (that leaves Texas Gator out, because he thinks all bikers “deserve to be killed!”).”
That is a lie and you know it.
If you only had a brain. Which gang? On that day in that location at least one gang wore badges.
The ignorance in you is only surpassed by the vile hate that has eaten away at your soul until nothing but a black hunk of gristled ugliness is left. That’s what you show here on FR.
Hard to say. The badged blue-shirted gang in Waco deals with them all.
The only vile hate around here is spewed by the pedophile gangster lovers.
You misspelled neuroses.
No, you need to spend all your waking hours on FR, frantically reloading the home page, incessantly, in desperate hope that a new Waco thread will appear.
‘Cuz that’s how you do it.
:)
WTF are “ reasonblend” and “grug”?
Somebody seems to be drunk-posting again.
:D
agreed - this was a tragedy caused by government on steroids
Reasonblend and grug are the newest street drugs used in towns like Wace where they rely for protection on the Thim Blub Limo.
(Give him amothar bubble durbon. He’s under he affluence of inkohol.)
Yep; that’s pretty much TG’s constant state I believe. Anyone with that much deep hate and resentment in them has to drown it somehow.
LMAO!
[Reasonblend and Glugenstern are dead]
/Bard to tears
I kinda hate to laugh at another’s mental misfortune...but...LOLOL
lol
Is John Doe, Red Boots?
Were they Cossacks or Bandidos?
Members of the Plot Device MC.
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