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Waco killings: 170 members of motorcycle gangs charged─── 12:27 Tue, 19 May 2015
Waco - Around 170 members of rival motorcycle gangs have been charged with engaging in organised crime a day after a shootout at a Texas restaurant which killed nine people and injured 18.
McLennan County Justice of the Peace WH Peterson set a bond of $1m (or R11 million) for each suspect, citing the nature of the violence which unfolded at lunchtime at a busy shopping centre and restaurant. Peterson has also carried out inquests on the nine dead bikers.
He declined to identify them, but said all of them were from Texas.
Five biker gangs had gathered at the Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco as part of a meeting to settle differences over turf and recruitment on Sunday.
A dispute, which is thought to have begun in the bathroom, erupted into violence as gang members used weapons on each other, before opening fire with guns.
Sky News
