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		</div><h6><span style="color: #000000;">First murder charges filed against three biker club members; fallout of 2015 deadly shooting between rival biker gangs in Waco, Texas</span></h6>
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<h6><span style="color: #000000;">Gunfight exchanged between<strong> police and bikers after fight broke out between the Bandidos and Cossacks motorcycle clubs </strong>outside Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco on May 22, 2015</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;">It left nine people dead and 20 injured</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Three members of Bandidos motorcycle club were indicted on murder charges, Wednesday </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Murder charges were filed against Jeff Battey, a local sergeant-at-arms with the Bandidos, and club members Ray Allen and Glenn Walker</strong> </span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>The murder charges are the first in the case, stemming from a 2015 shooting</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Nearly 200 bikers were arrested after the shooting and charged with engaging in felony organized criminal activity, homicide and aggravated assault </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>5</strong><strong>4 of initial 192 cases filed against the Bikers have been dropped in the last four months, they&#8217;re focusing on those who were &#8216;more culpable,&#8217; &#8211; prosecutors </strong></span></h6>
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<h6 class="teads-inread sm-screen"><img class="alignnone wp-image-292821" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Jeff-Battey-left-Ray-Allen-centre-and-Glenn-Walker-right-1.png" alt="Jeff Battey [left], Ray Allen [centre], and Glenn Walker [right] 1.png" width="763" height="281" /><strong>[L-R] Jeff Battey, Ray Allen and Glenn Walker [left] all members of the Bandidos motorcycle indicted on murder charges Wednesday after a shoot out between rival biker gangs in Texas left 9 people dead and 20 injured in Waco, Texas on May 17, 2015</strong></h6>
<div class="teads-inread sm-screen">Three members of the Bandidos motorcycle club were indicted on murder charges Wednesday stemming from a chaotic 2015 shooting that involved police and members of another biker club outside a restaurant in Waco, Texas.<br />
The indictments mark the first murder charges in the case, and more than 20 other bikers were re-indicted on new charges ranging from rioting to tampering with evidence.<br />
The lesser charges come just eight days before the statute of limitations runs out on the lesser of those crimes [no-murder related], and a day after dozens of cases were dropped. Statute of limitation does not apply to murder charges.<br />
Police arrested nearly 200 bikers following the shooting at a Twin Peaks restaurant that left nine people dead and 20 injured.</div>
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<h6 class="imageCaption"><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-292814" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Jeff-Battey-1.png" alt=" Jeff Battey 1.png" width="640" height="676" /><br />
Local sergeant-at-arms for the Bandidos, Jeff Battey photo], has been charged with murder from the motorcycle gang related shooting at the Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco, Texas in May 2015.</strong></h6>
<p>Investigators say the incident was sparked by rivalries between the Bandidos and Cossacks motorcycle clubs. Waco police officers monitoring the gathering also fired on the bikers.<br />
The murder charges were filed against Jeff Battey, a local sergeant-at-arms with the Bandidos, and two other club members: Ray Allen and Glenn Walker.</p>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><strong> <img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-292815" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Ray-Allen-1.png" alt="Ray Allen 1.png" width="627" height="707" />Bandidos Biker Club member Ray Allen, arrested during the motorcycle gang related shooting at the Twin Peaks restaurant. He has been indicted for murder</strong></h6>
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<h6 class="imageCaption"><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-292816" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Glenn-Walker-1.png" alt="Glenn Walker 1.png" width="620" height="716" /><br />
The third Bandidos Biker Club member Glenn Walker [photo], similarly indicted for murder, in the biker gang related shooting at the Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco, Texas in 2015.</strong></h6>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">The indictment charging Battey alleges he fatally shot Matthew Smith, a Cossacks member who died at the scene from gunshot wounds.<br />
Battey, a former Marine, and Allen were seen by officers &#8216;triangulated&#8217; over Smith, and a pistol was found in front of each man, according to Waco police records reviewed by the AP. An autopsy showed Smith was shot in the abdomen and back.<br />
Battey&#8217;s attorney, Seth Sutton, said prosecutors failed to provide a &#8216;full and complete picture of the evidence&#8217; to the grand jury.<br />
&#8216;We believe that justice will prevail for Mr. Battey and that he will be acquitted of all wrongdoing,&#8217; Sutton said.</p>
<h6 class="mol-para-with-font"><img class="alignnone wp-image-292824" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Scene-from-Biker-shoot-out-in-WacoTexas-2.png" alt="Scene from Biker shoot out in Waco,Texas 2" width="651" height="361" /><strong>Some of the biker gang members run for cover while comrades exchanged gunfire </strong></h6>
<h6 class="mol-para-with-font"><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-292823" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Bodies-on-the-ground-after-the-Biker-gang-shootout-in-Waco-Texas.png" alt="Bodies on the ground after the Biker gang shootout in Waco Texas" width="670" height="318" />Later bodies of the dead and injured were strewn all over the parking lot</strong></h6>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">Attorneys for Allen and Walker didn&#8217;t respond to messages from the AP seeking comment.<br />
Surveillance footage showed numerous bikers running from the scene and ducking for cover after gunshots rang out. A smaller number could be seen pointing and firing weapons, slinging a chain or participating in fistfights.<br />
Law enforcement officers recovered dozens of firearms, knives and other weapons from the restaurant and adjacent parking lot.</p>
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<h6 class="imageCaption"><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-292818" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Twin-Peaks-restaurant-Waco-Texas-1.png" alt="Twin Peaks restaurant, Waco, Texas 1" width="637" height="443" />Authorities investigate a shooting in the parking lot of Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco, Texas on May 17, 2015. </strong></h6>
<p class="imageCaption">Prosecutors have dismissed another 42 cases relating to the 2015 shooting in Waco involving rival biker gangs that left nine dead and 20 others injured. A shootout between rival biker gangs began in the afternoon May 17, led to nine dead, many injured and 170 arrested. Dash-cam video showed that officers indiscriminately organized many of the weapons into piles on the pavement and in the back of a police vehicle.</p>
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<h6 class="imageCaption"><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-292817" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Twin-Peaks-Restaurant-before-the-shootout-on-May-18-2015.png" alt="Twin Peaks Restaurant before the shootout on May 18, 2015" width="670" height="396" /><br />
The Twin Peaks restaurant, the scene of a motorcycle gang shootout, is seen May 18, 2015 in Waco, Texas.</strong></h6>
<h6 class="imageCaption"><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-292822" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Scene-from-Biker-gang-shootout-in-Waco-Texas.png" alt="Scene from Biker gang shootout in Waco, Texas.png" width="689" height="331" />Biker gang members scramble for cover as the violence erupts between the Bandidos and Cossacks motorcycle clubs, in a turf war in Waco Texas, May 2015</strong></h6>
<p class="imageCaption">Law enforcement evidence reviewed by the AP also showed that police officers killed at least two bikers. A grand jury cleared the officers of wrongdoing.</p>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">All of the bikers arrested following the shooting were charged with engaging in organized criminal activity, a felony, with the underlying offenses of homicide and aggravated assault.<br />
They were held on $1 million bonds in county jail, and Battey was among the first to bail out.<br />
But prosecutors have dropped 154 of the initial 192 cases in the last four months, saying they wanted to focus on those who were &#8216;more culpable.&#8217;<br />
Only one biker &#8211; Jake Carrizal, a locomotive driver and the president of the Dallas chapter of the Bandidos &#8211; has been tried.<br />
His trial ended in a hung jury and a mistrial last fall, though he was among the bikers re-indicted on Wednesday. Carrizal is now facing a new charge of rioting.<br />
The county&#8217;s district attorney, Abel Reyna, didn&#8217;t return messages from the AP seeking more details about the indictments.<br />
Reyna said in February, when announcing the first round of disposed cases, that information gleaned during Carrizal&#8217;s trial was &#8216;invaluable&#8217; in his office&#8217;s decision to narrow the focus of its investigation.</p>
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Murder charges filed against three men from 2015 shooting between rival outside Texas restaurant that left NINE people dead and 20 injured
