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Sunday Biker Gang Shooting Leaves Nine Dead, Several Injured (Waco, TX)
kwtx.com/ ^ | May 17 2015 | Lauren Partain, Carlos Garcia and Brandon Marshall

Posted on 05/17/2015 2:39:46 PM PDT by Whenifhow

Three rival motorcycle gangs turned a local restaurant into a shooting gallery Sunday afternoon and when the gunfire was over, nine people were dead and several were injured.

Waco police Sunday afternoon, assisted by Department of Public Safety troopers, police officers from several cities and deputies from the McLennan County Sheriff's Office were surrounding the Twin Peaks Restaurant, in the Central Texas Market Place after several people were reported shot during a rival motorcycle gang fight, Waco police Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton said.

Police and troopers were in the parking lot trying to secure the area and protect citizens when a fight broke out inside the restaurant and spilled into the parking lot. Swanton said the fight quickly escalated from fists and feet to chains, clubs and knives, then to gunfire. Gang members were shooting at each other and officers at the scene fired their weapons, as well, Swanton said.

The scene at the Market Place between Don Carlos and Twin Peaks was absolute chaos, Swanton said.

The victims were taken by ambulance to Baylor Scott and White Hillcrest Medical Center, which later was placed on lock down, but officials at Hillcrest said they had no comment.

He also said police have been trying to work with management at Twin Peaks for several weeks but have been thwarted in their efforts to avoid a situation like happened Sunday afternoon.

A witness who was having lunch across the parking lot at Don Carlos Mexican Restaurant said he and his family had just finished eating and walked into the parking lot when they heard several gunshots and saw wounded being taken from the fight scene.

"We crouched down in front of our pick-up truck because that was the only cover we had," the man, who asked not to be identified, said.

(Excerpt) Read more at kwtx.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2; gang; shooting; texas; twinpeaks; waca; waco
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To: Whenifhow; PROCON

I just saw this too.

NBC: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/multiple-people-killed-biker-war-waco-texas-restaurant-n360336


41 posted on 05/17/2015 3:08:47 PM PDT by GeronL (NEW ARRIVALS -> 99 cents buy here: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/541331)
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To: GeronL
From the link:

'Nine bicycle gang members...'

Bicycle? Bicycle? That sure as hell isn't going to help...

42 posted on 05/17/2015 3:13:03 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

That bike looks like my shovel head super glide. Like to have it back.


43 posted on 05/17/2015 3:14:48 PM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: LA Woman3

In a pic on another thread saw one wearing colors of “Scimitars”


44 posted on 05/17/2015 3:16:01 PM PDT by Figment
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To: null and void

I knew a David lynch in High school, but other that nope...


45 posted on 05/17/2015 3:16:06 PM PDT by BigCinBigD (...Was that okay?)
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To: who knows what evil?
At least 20 shots were fired....

Nine dead and many wounded. These guys are on target. The NYCPD fired over 100 rounds and hit the perp 8 times. Maybe the bikers need to school the NYCPD.

46 posted on 05/17/2015 3:16:25 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: Whenifhow

Everybody wins in criminal-on-criminal violence. I say, arm both sides and grab popcorn.


47 posted on 05/17/2015 3:17:24 PM PDT by sagar
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To: Whenifhow

What is the restaurant to do? Throw them out and face lawsuits and the ACLU protesting in their parking lot? It is a lose-lose situation. If they aren’t doing anything illegal you can’t toss them and you know eventually something like this will happen.


48 posted on 05/17/2015 3:18:38 PM PDT by LukeL
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To: who knows what evil?

LOLZ!!!


49 posted on 05/17/2015 3:19:25 PM PDT by GeronL (NEW ARRIVALS -> 99 cents buy here: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/541331)
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To: who knows what evil?

did you get a screenshot? It’s changed now


50 posted on 05/17/2015 3:20:06 PM PDT by GeronL (NEW ARRIVALS -> 99 cents buy here: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/541331)
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To: BigCinBigD

Ah. Totally bizarre murder mystery. Pilot episode and two TV seasons.


51 posted on 05/17/2015 3:21:32 PM PDT by null and void (My favorite drawings at the Muhammad cartoon festival in Texas were the two chalk outlines out front)
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To: LukeL

“What is the restaurant to do? Throw them out and face lawsuits and the ACLU protesting in their parking lot? It is a lose-lose situation. If they aren’t doing anything illegal you can’t toss them and you know eventually something like this will happen.”

Exactly. I was at a Bikinis restaurant in Arlington once when a biker gang came in. About Twenty of them. Didn’t cause a stir.


52 posted on 05/17/2015 3:22:27 PM PDT by BigCinBigD (...Was that okay?)
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To: 4yearlurker

From the pictures I’ve seen, probably a mix of whites and Tejanos. I think two colors there were Vaqueros and Scimitar. Some say one of the clubs were the Kossacks.


53 posted on 05/17/2015 3:23:01 PM PDT by Darren McCarty (We need a conservative electable candidate in 2016)
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To: null and void

Interesting.


54 posted on 05/17/2015 3:23:41 PM PDT by BigCinBigD (...Was that okay?)
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To: GeronL

I was too busy laughing to think about it...I didn’t think NBC employed anyone intelligent enough to catch it...live and learn.


55 posted on 05/17/2015 3:23:49 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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To: 4yearlurker

“Mexican bikers? Wheels of Soul? Amish?”

Most likely white guys.

If so, can we put a racial spin on these murders, or is such violence immune from the race card being dealt?


56 posted on 05/17/2015 3:29:03 PM PDT by Oliviaforever
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To: LA Woman3

I can’t believe the authorities won’t release names of the gangs involved. The local chapter of Banditos in my old hometown dissolved. For the most part the only crimes they got caught for was drunk driving and having sex with minors. There were definitely a lot of groupies and supporters, but the local sheriff took to getting his guys to show up half way through their group rides and hitting them for drunk biking.


57 posted on 05/17/2015 3:30:09 PM PDT by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: arthurus
"Aye, let them kill each other and be done with it. Stand down, I said."


58 posted on 05/17/2015 3:31:02 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
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To: 4yearlurker

Southern Baptist vs. Methodist vs. Amish bikers I guess.


59 posted on 05/17/2015 3:31:22 PM PDT by RetiredArmy (It is about THE CROSS. It has always been and always will be about the CROSS!!!)
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To: who knows what evil?

I just copied the link. I wish I would have read that.


60 posted on 05/17/2015 3:32:43 PM PDT by GeronL (NEW ARRIVALS -> 99 cents buy here: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/541331)
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