I know these guys. She wore a large black onyx ring and brilliant cherry red lipstick; one of her Chihuahuas, Bonnie, padded by in a white dress with a red bow. One of the 151 guns found by investigators was in the grass outside Twin Peaks after the fight. Bucher saw one walk up to someone on the ground and shoot him, point blank, before disappearing behind a truck. In 34 years of law enforcement, a spokesperson for the Waco Police Department told reporters, it was the most violent crime scene I have ever been involved in. The police ended up arresting 177 bikers, an event described in this newspaper as what appears to be the largest roundup and mass arrest of bikers in recent American history.. He would later say, in a sworn affidavit, that he had gone to the feds, claiming that Reyna had engaged in a pattern of preferential treatment for friends, campaign supporters and their relatives, including declining to prosecute D.W.I. A Cossack, he said, threw the first punch, and Carrizal got in a single punch before being swarmed: I remember they had brass knuckles, and they were trying to get inside my face shield they were trying to hit inside there. Attorneys pushed back against what they considered insulting, unnecessary guidelines imposed by Reynas office, especially in light of the Michael Morton Discovery Act, which requires the disclosure of state evidence but also precludes attorneys from releasing discovery items to the media and others. But he was running for a third term in a radically different climate. The police were doing this correctly at first, says Looney, the defense attorney. There was a line, often attributed to the American Motorcycle Association, reassuring the nation that 99 percent of riders were law-abiding. Then the crowd pulses, like a single organism, before scattering as the first gunshot is fired. So I gathered up Roxanne and told her: Lets go to Waco. Until you put us in a position where we cant. A source called him, the night before the meeting, to say that something might kick up., On Sunday morning, a group gathered at the clubhouse of the Bandidos Dallas chapter. Shaniqua Corsey, busing tables, glanced through a window and spotted a biker in a yellow helmet engaged in a heated argument. It does appear to be crime scene photos and video from Twin Peaks, but we did not release it, Waco police Sgt. The judges gag order states that it only applies to the Clendennen case, not each and every case, as many have misinterpreted the order. There was sufficient probable cause to arrest three bikers following the May 17 Twin Peaks shootout, a visiting judge ruled Wednesday. Actually, W. told me, their exact words, because I was sitting at the table that day, were, If anybody deserves to have a Texas rocker, it would be the Cossacks, because youve been around just as long, and youve earned it., At some point in fall 2014, though, Pike, the Bandidos president, convened a meeting at his home in Conroe, Texas. When he refused, they beat him with fists and a claw hammer, leaving him with a head wound requiring 12 staples. The prosecutors showed jurors stickers and patches on Bandidos gear, including one on Carrizals fathers bike that said I Do Gang Things. (Is that a literal patch, Jarrett asked sarcastically, or is that a secret meaning that means the exact opposite of what it says?) The prosecutors also revealed damaging text messages, including an exchange between Carrizal and a support-club member called Jughead, who had texted to say that Cossacks had tagged the wall of a bar in Dallas and might still be nearby. The Tribune-Herald in the days following the shootout requested surveillance video and photos from the scene, but the city refused to provide more than 19 pages of incomplete incident reports from the day of the shooting. The case made by the U.S. Justice Department in its successful 1988 prosecution of Ronald Hodge, Chamberss successor, suggested more of a top-down structure. Hodge, prosecutors said, ordered subordinates to collect $100 from every member of the group to fund an elaborate revenge plot against a rival club, the Banshees, meant to include a machine-gun attack on a clubhouse in Texarkana and the bombing of homes and vehicles in Dallas. Surveillance video from Waco, Texas, shows the shootout between police and biker clubs that ended with nine dead and 177 Nobody wants to hear that. Pierson works as a diesel-engine technician, though he said the Twin Peaks arrest and subsequent legal bills forced him to sideline the business he started and take another job for less pay. WebNine people were killed and 18 wounded after a lunchtime biker gang shootout May 17, 2015, between rival motorcycle gangs at the Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco, Texas. In this photo, Ive always been this close to being a criminal myself, he told me. District Judge Ralph Strother indicated that he would require Reyna to testify at the new hearing. (He insists upon his innocence.) The Cossacks claim around 200 members, mostly in small towns in Texas. A Waco, Texas, police officer removes crime-scene tape from the parking lot where a biker brawl left nine dead, 18 others wounded and more than 177 in jail. With the bikers, he told Avery, he didnt want to miss his chance. WebA noon-hour shootout Sunday involving rival motorcycle gangs and Waco law enforcement officers left nine people dead and at least 18 wounded at the Twin Peaks restaurant in Three of the four bikers who remain jailed in the wake of the deadly Twin Peaks shootout have felony charges pending in other counties. They hadnt even put their names on the restaurant wait-list yet when the shooting started. Discovery Company. It sounded like the gunfight at the OK Corral. Did you encounter any technical issues? Someone yelled hit the floor, there was constant shots being fired. Some cried out for help. On the video, you can see a man pointing a gun in the manner described by Jackson before abruptly dropping. A bloody bandana lies on the sidewalk outside of Twin Peaks. Police also recovered an ax, bats, batons, brass knuckles, a chain, clubs, a hatchet, knives, a machete, pepper spray, a pipe, stun guns, tomahawks and weighted weapons. Over 130 civil rights lawsuits are still pending against Reyna, the city and county and law-enforcement officers involved in the arrests. As Don Tittle, a Dallas lawyer who specializes in civil rights and police-misconduct cases, and who is handling a number of the bikers civil lawsuits, pointed out to me, The obvious conundrum for the prosecution was that any bikers who fired shots could claim self-defense. (Texas has a stand your ground law.) bulletin concluded, confirm that tensions between the Bandidos and the Cossacks remain high in the area and can escalate at any time., One Cossack (he requested anonymity; call him W., his first initial) received his own warning about the meeting. FILE - In this May 17, 2015 file photo, authorities investigate a shooting in the parking lot of Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco, Texas. A gun is seen in the passenger seat of a car. These meetings were typically low-key affairs; the Waco event was planned for 1 p.m. on a Sunday, at a Hooters-style chain restaurant called Twin Peaks, where the waitresses wear lumberjack-plaid halter tops. But its a bothersome thing. Another body lies next to a tipped-over bike. The chaotic scene is from May 17, when rival motorcycle gangs engaged in a shootout in and around a restaurant in Waco, Texas. Abel initially worked as a criminal defense lawyer and attributed his success in part to ignorance: Unaware of how to work the system to avoid trials, he logged plenty of courtroom hours, developing a flair for persuading jurors. Jury selection began in fall 2017, two and a half years after Twin Peaks. He claimed the Cossacks had ambushed his crew, and he began crying when talking about his father, Chris Carrizal, who was known as Shovel, being shot that day. He managed an upset victory, and by 2015, he had been easily re-elected to a second term. Her best friend put her in touch with Looney, who flew out and cleared up the matter. Seven of the nine bikers who were killed at Twin Peaks were members of the Cossacks. On May 17, 2015, a fight broke out between two rival biker clubs in Waco, Texas. More recently, he had been forced to step away from the club temporarily, a condition of the two-year probation he received for a misdemeanor conviction unrelated to Twin Peaks. The investigation that would lead to the takedown of the Bandidos national leadership came to be known as Operation Texas Rocker. Pike and Portillo had ordered the murder of Anthony Benesh, an Austin biker who had been trying to start a Texas chapter of the Hells Angels. Stroman told Lanning to make the arrests. The Waco PD says about 480 weapons were found that day. Before his term ended, Reyna would dismiss all but 24 of the bikers cases, with Johnson dismissing the final two dozen in April 2019. The weapons being used quickly escalated from hands and feet to guns. The possibly sensationalized reports of what became known as the Hollister Riot included drunkenness, indecent exposure and the riding of motorcycles through restaurants and bars; they would inspire the short story that became The Wild One, the 1953 film in which Marlon Brandos Black Rebels Motorcycle Club terrorizes square townies. COCs are biker networks that exist in nearly every U.S. state and meet every couple of months or so to discuss motorcycle issues and legislation. The Fort Worth chapters president was killed weeks before Reaviss arrival; two others featured in his article would be shot within the year. The release of information in the Twin Peaks cases has not been without controversy. Texas Shootings Waco Shooting Video footage and photographs have surfaced that appear to show the inside of a restaurant in Waco, Texas, during a motorcycle-club Waco biker gangs shootout 22 photos. He was on the patio drinking a glass of water when the shots rang out, after which his actions, Broden later wrote in a case filing, were consistent with what 99 percent of the population would do he immediately took cover to avoid being struck.. There were also members of unaffiliated clubs, like the Christian Motorcyclists Association, interdenominational evangelizers among the biker community. On Buchers dashcam video, you see a biker toward the right of the frame throw a punch. But this meeting was preceded by rumblings of an escalating feud between two of the states biggest outlaw motorcycle clubs, the Cossacks and the Bandidos. When Rogers came on the radio and said there appeared to be some tension at the front of the restaurant, Bucher drove around and found about 200 bikers by the patio, arranged in a way that reminded him of a football team huddled around a coach. As soon as Reyna faced accusations of corruption and drug use, Looney says, it was in the nature of a chicken whos had its neck wrung. Jewelry lies on the asphalt in the Twin Peaks parking lot. Due to the known growing tension between the Bandidos and the Cossacks, the Waco Police Department coordinated a surveillance and intelligence-gathering operation for this meeting, according to documents from the Waco Police Department and the Texas Department of Public Safety. CNN video shows footage, crime scene photos of Twin Peaks melee. In the end, his primary wasnt even close: Johnson defeated him by nearly 20 points. WebU.S. The local defense bar was overwhelmed with cases, so Broden met Clendennen at the Waco detention center. Patches on a Bandidos vest commemorate Candyman, a Bandido who was killed in the fight. Jacquelin Ganske, a server, happened to be on the patio near some Cossacks when the Bandidos arrived, with Carrizal and his uncle, the president of the Dallas chapter, leading the pack. Pete Peterson on Thursday, sayin, McLennan County and the city of Waco plan to seek more than a half-million dollars from programs run by Gov. William was 33, a laid-off welder and Marine Corps veteran who served in Iraq. After being transferred to the convention center, where he thought he would simply be giving a witness statement, Clendennen wound up spending more than two weeks in jail, unable to afford the $100,000 required for his $1 million bond. Moving to a large computer monitor, Avery began to click through crime-scene photographs, many of them graphic close-ups of dead bodies. His first order of business was a reduction of their million-dollar bonds. W. Patrick Swanton said. The problem comes when you are trying to control the receipt of information about a criminal case with an acknowledgment that you shouldnt be talking to the press, particularly when the district attorney is so liberally ignoring those rules.. (renews at {{format_dollars}}{{start_price}}{{format_cents}}/month + tax). meeting in a Nissan Sentra. > EDITORIAL: Newly leaked footage of Twin Peaks bikers offers drama but little useful context. WebDramatic surveillance footage and crime-scene photos obtained by CNN show the deadly progression of a shootout between rival biker gangs in Waco, Texas, in May that left nine An attorney for a Hewitt biker arrested in the Twin Peaks shootout said Tuesday he intends to ask a federal judge to block the state from pros, The term of the McLennan County grand jury that indicted 106 bikers in the Twin Peaks incident has been extended by 90 days so it can conclude. Despite months of failed media attempts to obtain video footage and crime scene photos of the May 17 Twin Peaks shootout that killed nine men and injured 20 others, CNN released video evidence Thursday. You have me!. An early profile by Tommy Witherspoon of The Waco Tribune-Herald noted that, during jury selection, Reyna would dazzle the room by quickly memorizing dozens of potential jurors and calling on them by name. His second in command, John Portillo, and the national sergeant-at-arms, Justin Forster, attended. When I called, some were like, I dont know if I have the time, Avery told me. Police recovered many knives from the scene. According to Eric Fuchs, the assistant U.S. attorney who led the prosecution, a Bandidos hit team followed Benesh, his girlfriend and his two sons to a pizzeria. Despite a prickly relationship with the press and critiques that he wasnt spending as much time personally trying cases as he had promised, Reyna had fulfilled his central campaign pledge, perhaps to a fault his office was prosecuting cases to such an aggressive degree that concerns rose about jail overcrowding. Bucher, an Army veteran, was using his door for cover as bullets whizzed past. Nine people were killed in a fight between two rival biker groups. The bikers werent being given Miranda warnings because they were being treated as witnesses. According to witness statements given to police, a Twin Peaks employee said that prior to the fight that led to the shooting, the Cossacks were attempting to keep their conversation private. Theres no class-action prosecution. Back in Houston, he made it his mission to replace court-appointed defense attorneys before they could push their clients into accepting plea deals an outcome he was convinced had been part of the D.A.s strategy all along. He wasnt taken to Highway 6, the county jail, for booking until 10 the next morning, and wasnt placed in a cell at Jack Harwell, an ICE detention facility, until 2 the following morning. An officer from the Waco Police Department discovered blood smeared across the Twin Peaks bathroom floor. This surveillance Those incidents, the D.P.S. Theres a rumor that he killed somebody, she said one morning two years ago, tapping a face. Texas Monthly writer, did an article on the Bandidos in 1979. a predawn raid in and around a Bronx housing project called Eastchester Gardens. Sometime the year before, the Cossacks began wearing a Texas rocker on the back of their own vests. AP reviewed video from surveillance cameras, police dashcams and witness interviews, crime scene photos, contents of more than 100 cellphones and thousands of pages of documents. She was initially put off by the idea of defending people who might well be guilty. Amid the chaos, he would later report, he saw a man calmly aiming a revolver as if preparing to execute someone on the ground. Im not in the club, and Im always going to belong to the Bandidos. Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device. Pierson, whose road name is Scratch, had a large 1 percent tattoo on his neck, smoked Marlboros and was missing a few lower teeth. Jake Carrizal, of the Dallas chapter of the Bandidos, was the first biker to stand trial. The Bandidos boast a membership of 2,000 to 2,500 across not just the United States, but also 13 other countries, the Department of Justice says. Fifty-one of the defendants, they noted, were not even accused of being gang members by the state; only one-third of those arrested were charged with a violent or firearm-related offense; of the 117 people ultimately convicted of a crime, 35 were convicted based on nothing more serious than selling marijuana. CNN has obtained video and images of the chaos during and after the brawl. Depending on who you talked to at that time, they were either the largest or second-largest outlaw motorcycle organization in the world, after the Hells Angels, says Eric Fuchs, the assistant U.S. attorney who headed a 2018 case against the Bandidos president, Jeff Pike, and vice president, John Portillo. Even though he worked as a defense lawyer, Reyna found himself disgusted by the number of cases the D.A., a five-term Democratic incumbent named John Segrest, was declining to prosecute. Eli Durst is a fine-art photographer based in Austin, where he teaches at the University of Texas. More stories began to trickle out, like that of Patrick Harris. I dont want to say anything that I shouldnt. You can cancel at any time. The trial-preparation specialist Roxanne Avery with her Chihuahua Bonnie in Norman, Okla.CreditEli Durst for The New York Times. Even among the dragons, though, Twin Peaks has left a nagging sense of justice undone. Large gatherings of bikers have been a source of anxiety for Americans since at least 1947, when up to 4,000 motorcyclists showed up for a rally in Hollister, Calif. Two of them, Michael Bucher and Heath Jackson, arrived to find between 75 and 100 bikers in the lot behind the restaurant, many wearing Bandidos red and gold, most with knives on their belts. Pete Peterson related to the May 17 biker shootin, A crowd of about 100 motorcycle riders from around the state gathered Saturday evening in front of the McLennan County Courthouse to hear exho, A Bandido from San Antonio who remains jailed after his arrest in the May 17 Twin Peaks shootout likely will be released soon after an agreeme, FORT WORTH A biker arrested after a deadly shootout involving bikers and police in Waco, Texas, says it is a conflict of interest for a pol. How 177 arrests led to no convictions a tangled, seven-year tale of prosecutorial hubris and tenacious defense. And while the police made a show of the 151 guns recovered at the scene, bringing a firearm to Sunday brunch isnt necessarily evidence of much in a permissive open-carry state. First it described the clash and the nine deaths. It defied credibility. While the D.A.s office issued news releases and mug shots of the bikers were splashed across newspapers throughout the state, Looney said he saw nobody stepping forward to counter the narrative, one that was completely damning the accused. Your effort and contribution in providing this feedback is much As police officers secured the scene, the bikers raised their hands in surrender or sprawled prone with their hands on their heads. Avery began to work for him in 2013, writing news releases and sitting second chair at trial as his discovery expert. The same day, a group of Cossacks forced a Bandido off I-35 and beat him with a chain, pipe and baton before stealing his motorcycle. WebPeople at the Central Texas MarketPlace watch a crime scene near the parking lot of a Twin Peaks restaurant Sunday, May 17, 2015, in Waco, Texas. An entire wall of her home office in Norman, Okla., is covered with wallet-size mug shots of the nearly 200 bikers arrested, as well as photographs of the nine men who died that day, seven years ago, after a violent brawl in a Waco parking lot. After her husband, an OB-GYN, died of a heart attack, she hired other doctors and continued to own and operate his clinic until a competitor reported her to local authorities for practicing medicine without a license. The price tag for the Twin Peaks prosecutions was already approaching $1 million. On June 30, Judge Matt Johnson of Wacos 54th State District Court placed video from the restaurant surveillance cameras under a protective order because he said he was concerned about tainting potential jury pools. The media and law enforcement made a big deal about all these weapons, Avery says. Theyre legitimate fraternal organizations that arent running a criminal enterprise., Jay Dobyns, a former undercover agent with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives who infiltrated the Hells Angels in the early aughts, said he understood the attractiveness of the outlaw clubs for a certain type of 9-to-5, blue-collar guy suddenly hes respected, admired, feared, people want to shake his hand, buy him drinks, give him drugs, girls who in any other situation wouldnt look twice at this guy are cozying up to him. But he also said the fight between the Cossacks and the Bandidos was ultimately not any different than Crips and Bloods trying to own a particular street corner to sell drugs on, and that insisting otherwise was nave., Reavis whose Texas Monthly editor let him expense a shotgun he carried while reporting his Bandidos article nonetheless believes the Mafia comparisons are overblown. He heard about the shooting around 1:30 p.m., after church, and headed to Twin Peaks. The shootout at the Twin Peaks restaurant May 17 that claimed the lives of nine bikers and placed Waco in the cross hairs of national scrutiny, A Waco police detective was selected Wednesday to preside over a new McLennan County grand jury that could be the panel that considers the Twi, FORT WORTH The family of a biker slain in a shootout outside a Waco restaurant is suing the restaurant's parent company for negligence, acco, The owner of a local landscaping business who was jailed with 176 other bikers after the deadly May 17 Twin Peaks shootout has dismissed his f, Attorneys for Don Carlos Mexican Restaurant in Waco are seeking to block a subpoena that would require restaurant officials to turn over secur, A hearing Thursday for a disabled Gatesville Army veteran who rides with the Cossacks Motorcycle Club included a strong challenge to the proba, Two days after a state district judge extended the term of a McLennan County grand jury to consider the Twin Peaks shootout case, he changed h, A Dallas attorney who represents Hewitt biker Matthew Clendennen filed an emergency appeal Wednesday seeking to lift a gag order a judge impos, McLennan County hired former prosecutor and longtime Waco attorney David Deaconson on Tuesday to represent local judges who are being subpoena, With 100 potential grand jurors waiting to report to the McLennan County Courthouse next week to break in a new system for selecting grand jur, A state district judge ruled Tuesday that a Dallas attorney can have a copy of a Twin Peaks franchisees video of the May 17 biker shootout, b, The May 17 war zone around Twin Peaks cost lives, liberties and livelihoods, but local companies monitoring GPS ankle bracelets and writing ba, A Dallas attorney, seeking video of the May 17 biker shootout from the Twin Peaks restaurant franchisee, filed a motion Friday to sanction the, The city of Waco is seeking to quash a subpoena issued to the former Waco Twin Peaks franchise holder for video of the May 17 shootout that le, The Bandidos Motorcycle Club released a statement Monday responding to police and other accounts of the May 17 shootout at Twin Peaks that kil, Officials are releasing limited information and say disclosure of certain evidence, including videos of the incident, would compromise their i, Prosecutors filed notices Tuesday of their intent to seize and forfeit 17 motorcycles, eight pickup trucks and two SUVs, alleging the vehicles, Waco Police Chief Brent Stroman said Friday that three Waco officers fired a total of 12 shots during the May 17 Twin Peaks shootout that kill, The president of the local chapter of the Cossacks Motorcycle Club was freed from jail Friday but he cant congregate with fellow Cossacks or , A member of the Bandidos motorcycle gang described Wednesday how he was punched in the face and then shot May 17 at Twin Peaks restaurant whil, McLennan county commissioners Tuesday began what will be a monthslong discussion to assemble the fiscal year 2016 budget, which includes how t, The mass arrests of 177 bikers after the May 17 Twin Peaks shootout is a nightmarish situation for everyone involved and are straining the l, As a veteran, community member and sworn defender of the U.S. Constitution, Ive been too quiet. Chamberss leadership ended in 1972, when he received two consecutive life sentences for murdering a pair of drug dealers who tried to sell him baking soda as meth. Four of the nine people killed in a melee between rival biker gangs outside a Twin Peaks restaurant were struck by the same caliber of rifle f, For the second time, CNN has released a short clip of surveillance video from the May 17 Twin Peaks shootout that left nine people dead 20 peo. Conspiracy has famously been dubbed the darling of the modern prosecutors nursery, the authors wrote its use tolerated despite warnings relating to the potential for abuse and unfairness. Conspiracy charges, they pointed out, did not require proof that someone was involved in committing a target crime or even knew about it. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. He last wrote a feature about the documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman. By Thursday afternoon, it simply read: Surveillance video., Swanton noted, I can speculate that it was released by an attorney who got it through discovery.. Knives and weapons are thrown across the dirt and weeds in the Twin Peaks parking lot. Well, go to another restaurant in Waco that doesnt have bikers and ask everybody to throw their weapons on the ground and see how many you get. Fuchs declined to comment on the Waco cases, but he said testimony during his prosecution showed that once Bandidos prospects reach a certain point, someone has a conversation with you, letting you know what this is. Steve Cook, a police gang-unit veteran from Kansas City who runs outlaw-motorcycle-culture training seminars, told me: You dont see the Kiwanis and the Lions Club running up on each other at Twin Peaks and getting into a gun battle, because guess what? Others tried to perform CPR on the wounded. Since his arrest, he had risen from vice president to president of his chapter, and he had flagrantly violated the conditions of his bond by continuing to associate with club members. Example: After months of watching as questionable decisions and obvious hiccups in , This is a condensed version of security camera footage from the parking lot outside Don Carlos Mexican Restaurant before, during and after the, The Texas Attorney Generals Office notified McLennan County District Attorney Abel Reyna this month that his office violated the Texas Public. Callahan said he likely will file a motion with the court asking a judge to order Reynas office to release the discovery items without requiring attorneys to sign such an agreement. And I was trying to get that pocketknife because I wanted to get them off me, and I never could. Tommy Witherspoon, who covered the trial for The Waco Tribune-Herald, told me that Carrizal was the most effective defendant Ive ever seen take the stand in his own defense, and Ive been doing this for 40 years.. He last wrote a feature about the documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman. His motorcycle club, the Distorted, had seven total members. Two patrons who were eating lunch at the Twin Peaks restaurant when the deadly May 17 shootout broke out have filed a lawsuit against Twin Pea. Avery likes to make Better Call Paul jokes. Ive waited to see how facts emerged from thi, As more bikers are released from McLennan County Jail, the accounts of what led up to the deadly shootout at Twin Peaks come into sharper conf, It seems government leadership has been usurped by a zealous sheriff and district attorney., As attorneys for bikers jailed in connection with the deadly Twin Peaks shootout continue to negotiate their releases on reduced bonds, downto, Video of the deadly May 17 Twin Peaks shootout between rival biker gangs shows Bandidos executing Cossacks and Cossacks executing Bandidos, , The Texas Commission on Jail Standards performed an unannounced inspection of the McLennan County Jail and adjacent Jack Harwell Detention Cen, A visiting judge Thursday denied an attempt by an attorney for nine bikers arrested in the deadly Twin Peaks shootout to remove McLennan Count, Twenty-five bikers arrested in the May 17 shootout at Twin Peaks have been released from jail since Thursday, when prosecutors and defense att, A Dallas attorney who represents a biker in a civil rights lawsuit against the city of Waco and McLennan County filed a complaint Tuesday agai, A McLennan County grand jury headed by an Iraq War combat veteran will begin hearing evidence next week in cases related to the May 17 Twin Pe, The day after 106 bikers were indicted for their alleged roles in the May 17 Twin Peaks shootout, attorneys for the bikers continue to express, FORT WORTH A grand jury has now returned indictments alleging that 106 bikers arrested after a deadly shootout outside a Waco, Texas, restau, A Waco biker indicted in the Twin Peaks shootout wants to go to trial first and as quickly as possible as a test case to prove that prosecut. 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