Posted on 05/18/2019 1:41:09 PM PDT by Elderberry
Officers arrested 177 people at the Twin Peaks shooting in 2015. Four years later, only one person has stood trial. All of the other cases have been dismissed.
Four years ago terrified diners were forced to take cover after shots rang out at a Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco.
What is now known as the deadliest biker shootout in U.S. history left nine people dead and 20 wounded.
Waco will not soon forget photos from the scene, showing bikers, some with guns blazing, crowding the restaurant.
“A great majority of them had guns, hatchets, knives and other deadly weapons with them,” McLennan County District Attorney Barry Johnson said.
Police arrested 177 bikers, but two years after the shooting Jake Carrizal, a vice president of the Dallas chapter Bandidos, would be the first and only biker to stand trial.
“I’m a Bandido. I’m looked at like a criminal,” Carrizal said.
Carrizal’s trial ended in a hung jury. Just a few months later, former District Attorney Abel Reyna dismissed more than half of the cases.
Reyna lost to District Attorney Barry Johnson in the 2018 election.
In April of this year, Johnson dismissed the remaining 24 cases, meaning no one would have to answer for the loss of those nine lives.
Johnson called the shooting a "tragic loss of life," but said there wasn’t enough evidence to prove the cases beyond a reasonable doubt, and Carrizal’s trial cost the county $1 million, plus an extra $500,000 for security and overtime.
“There were a lot of times where we thought we were going to go forward and prosecute some of these cases... Four or five of them, maybe up to nine," Johnson said. "Then the next day we would think, 'No, well we can’t really prosecute but one.'
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Rosebud attorney Matthew Wright said the civil cases could be costly too.
“We anticipate multiple appeals," Wright said. "We anticipate the taxpayers paying a lot of money to keep us in litigation and not just settle and be done."
Wright represents two bikers who were at Twin Peaks the day the shooting happened. Wright said one of his clients, William Richardson, was hurt in the shooting and is suing for medical expenses.
“One of our clients was never arrested," Wright said. "He was actually injured at the scene. He was shot as he was fleeing a scene."
Wright said Richardson is frustrated not knowing who committed the act.
“One of the things we are fighting on is just the ability to know who shot him and who’s responsible for his injuries,” said Wright.
Wright said a judge projected they wouldn’t see a trial date until 2022 or 2023.
No LEOs got off any rounds?
So much for a speedy trial.
It’s the feds who need to be on trial.
In before...
Waco II brought to you by the FBI and ATF .... the usual suspects.
And when the police started shooting all those weapons came out before the folks realized they were ambushed by the police. That ambush might not have been apparent until after the dead happened. When bullets started coming in each gang thought the other gang had started it and all probably thought they were defending themselves and theirs.
“I’m a Bandido. I’m looked at like a criminal,” Carrizal said.
The prosecutor and all the bikers should be imprisoned for sheer stupidity.
It early in the reporting began looking like a police ambush. If it were Negroes involved instead of white bikers, the charges of Ambush would have come immediately from the MSM. White bikers are a sub group of especially reprehensible demons among the larger group of White Men demons among the larger group White people also demons.
How many of the dead died by LEO fire? Just curious...
Thanks for all the updates , how Sad this whole Story has been , Thank you so much for keeping us up to date all these Years, it has been greatly appreciated to some of us.
Manuel Issac Rodriguez, 40, Allen, one gunshot wound in the head and one in the back.
Head: Medium Caliber NOT from police .223, Maybe from police 300AAC Blackout
Back: Medium Caliber, Labeled 15 over 8023 over SMH NOT from police .223, Maybe from police 300AAC Blackout
Matthew Mark Smith, 27, Keller, one gunshot wound in the back and one in the abdomen.
Back: Medium Caliber NOT from police .223, Maybe from police 300AAC Blackout
Abdomen: .25 Exit, Maybe from police .223
Jesus Delgado Rodriguez, 65, New Braunfels, one gunshot wound to the head and one in the back.
Head: Medium Caliber,Labeled 15-8021 over CS NOT from police .223, Maybe from police 300AAC Blackout
Trunk: .25 entrance, Maybe from police .223
Richard Matthew Jordan II, 31, Pasadena, one gunshot wound to the head.
Head: Medium Caliber NOT from police .223, Maybe from police 300AAC Blackout
Richard Vincent Kirschner Jr., 47, Wylie, one gunshot wound to the top of the head, one to the left knee and one in the buttocks.
Head: Unknown Labeled T-P over 8016 over 15, Maybe from police .223
Knee: Medium Caliber Labeled 15 over 8016 over T-P NOT from police .223 Maybe from police 300AAC Blackout
Buttocks: Small Caliber .223 or .22, Maybe from police .223
Wayne Lee Campbell, 43, Fort Worth, one gunshot wound to the head.
Head: Small Caliber .223 or .22, Maybe from police .223
Daniel Raymond Boyett, 44, Waco, shot two times in the head and once in the abdomen.
Head#1: .25 entrance. , Maybe from police .223
Head#2: .25 entrance. , Maybe from police .223
Abdomen: Medium Caliber NOT from police .223 Maybe from police 300AAC Blackout
Charles Wayne Russell, 46, Tyler, shot once in the chest.
Chest: Small Caliber .223 or .22, Maybe from police .223
Jacob Lee Rhyne, 39, Ranger, shot once in the neck and once in the abdomen.
Neck: .25 entrance; Maybe from police .223
Abdomen: 1.0 entrance
Don’t forget the Texas State Troopers. They were doing the legwork.
” Wright said Richardson is frustrated not knowing who committed the act. “
Wow;
first time in the history of mankind !
And of corse must not forget Red Boots.
That’s part of what made this whole case smell and part of why they had to drop almost all of the charges.
Waco DA’s office has refused to release the full ballistics report to anyone. Including the accused, who has the right to see all the evidence against them per the Constitution. That’s right, the Waco DA’s office refused to release the full ballistics reports even to the defense counsels. What they did release was pathetic, partial and mysteriously lacking in the ballistics information for the police weapons on scene that day.
I wonder why that might be.
With all the Cop equipment they had setup on site, they should be able to put together a pretty good millisecond by millisecond timeline of just who shot who and when.
The problem started with murderous cops, lying prosecutors, and corrupt judges. The bikers need to sue big time, the case needs to be opened or re-opened against the cops, prosecutors, and judges. Jail them!
When will the prosecutor stand trial?
Once again my paranoia is justified...{:-)
just the 98% making Hannity’s 2% friends look bad again.
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