"I know you are blaming us for this event, but I don't blame us," Carrizal testified."I don't blame the cops for it. More than 300 weapons were recovered from the scene, including guns, brass knuckles, knives and clubs. Carrizal's father was among the 20 people wounded. Seven of the nine people who died were members of the Cossacks, authorities say.
"The conflict may stem from Cossacks members refusing to pay Bandidos dues for operating in Texas and for claiming Texas as their territory by wearing the Texas bottom rocker on their vests, or 'colors' or 'cuts."
"Violence between members of the Bandidos OMG and the Cossacks MC has increased in Texas with no indication of diminishing," according to the bulletin. Two weeks earlier, the Texas Department of Public Safety issued a bulletin on the issue. The bad blood between the two groups was no secret to law enforcement officials, and police officers were on the scene before the shooting started. I am a Bandido and I'm looked at like a criminal so I expect no mercy." "I'm being judged by everyone in here," he said. Carrizal, who drives a train for a living, said he has never been in trouble before. They say Carrizal told the Bandidos to bring "tools" - weapons - to the restaurant.Ĭarrizal denied prosecutors' claims that the Bandidos are a criminal organization and said the group does not condone violence. Carrizal, who was not hit, admitted pulling out a derringer and firing its two rounds.Ĭarrizal testified the Bandidos had no plans to confront the Cossacks that day. Prosecutors say the Bandidos went to the restaurant looking for a fight. Surveillance video shows someone pointing a gun at Carrizal and firing. He said they ripped the shield off his helmet and attempted to punch his face with brass knuckles. "I remember fighting and kicking and just trying to get away or get them off of me." In gripping testimony this week, Carrizal, 35, said he arrived at the Waco restaurant for a Bandido meetup and was surrounded by members of the rival Cossacks club. "He couldn't even get off his bike before he was swarmed and surrounded," she said. She described Carrizal as courageous, saying he had to fight to defend his father, brothers and friends who also are Bandidos members. "The Bandidos are in fact a criminal street gang."ĭefense lawyer Casie Gotro dismissed the Bandidos' criminal legacy as the distant past. "This was destined to happen, there was going to be a war," Jarrett said. He called the Waco gunfight a "massacre." Prosecutor Michael Jarrett, in his closing argument, said the Bandidos "controlled the state of Texas in the biker world." He said robbery, drug dealing and violent crime were commonplace among the group's members. Jake Carrizal, who heads the Dallas chapter of the Bandidos, is charged with directing criminal activity that led to the deadly brawl between members of the Bandidos and Cossacks at Twin Peaks Restaurant in May 2015.Ĭarrizal is one of more than 170 bikers arrested following the shootout - and the first of 154 who were indicted to face trial. The jury's decision could have a major impact on those cases. So check your biker prejudice at the door and let's take a look at who really was involved in the 2015 Waco biker shoot-out.A Texas jury on Thursday began deliberating the fate of a motorcycle club leader who could face life in prison for his role in a ferocious gunbattle that left nine bikers dead. Just because they killed one hippie at a Rolling Stones concert decades ago doesn't mean they're all bad guys. However, you'd be accused of unfair stereotyping, because as HotCars points out, violent, drug smuggling bikers can do nice things like donate to food banks and take part in the political process, too. When we hear of a biker brawl, you might be quick to assume that it involved the most notorious leather-bound baddies in our popular imagination, the Hells Angels. When the fighting settled, nine bikers were dead and another 18 people were injured. Members of rival biker gangs used chains, clubs, brass knuckles, knives, pistols, and even AK-47 assault rifles to go at each other's throats until the police were able to get control of the situation. The Washington Post reports that a biker brawl erupted into an all-out gunfight at a Twin Peaks franchise there just after the clock struck high noon. For a few minutes on Sunday, May 18, 2015, a suburban shopping center in Waco, Texas, was turned into a modern tribute to the city's Wild West past.
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