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U.S. NEWS A5
Monday 2 November 2015
Last person jailed in Waco biker shooting to be released
behind restaurant tables with any of the deaths.
and crawl on the floor to In a 430-page Texas De-
escape the gunfire. partment of Public Safety
The release comes nearly report reviewed by The As-
six weeks after AP reviewed sociated Press, Pilkington
more than 8,800 pages of told investigators interview-
evidence related to the ing the injured that he did
May 17 confrontation, in- not fire a gun.
cluding police reports, Battey, who was shot in the
viewed dash-cam video arm, said “I may have fired
and photos and listened to a gun, I don’t know.”
audio interviews, On Friday, Battey’s at-
torney, Seth Sutton, filed
which together offer the a motion to have the ex-
best insight yet into how the Marine’s ankle monitor re-
shootout unfolded. Some moved and the condition
of this evidence, also in- that he not speak with any
cluding photos of weapons bikers lifted.
recovered at the scene, is According to the motion,
expected to be presented Battey’s attacker first fired
to a grand jury. his gun at Ray Allen, who
Investigators have offered was among those killed,
scant details about what before pointing his gun
sparked the fight or how and firing at Battey’s chest.
the gunfire played out, and Battey raised his arm to de-
no one has been charged flect the bullet.
Associated Press say arose from an appar-
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) ent confrontation between
— The last person jailed in the Bandidos and the Cos-
connection with a deadly sacks motorcycle clubs.
shootout among bikers More than 430 weapons
and police outside a Waco were recovered from the
restaurant was poised to crime scene, including 151
be released from jail, more firearms.
than five months after au- The gunfire erupted shortly
thorities rounded up 177 before a meeting of a co-
people from the crime alition of motorcycle clubs
scene and initially held that advocates for rider
them on $1 million bonds safety.
on charges of engaging in Dashboard video of the
organized criminal activity. scene shows people flee-
A Waco jail this weekend ing as shots ring out. Audio
was processing the release reveals police threatening
of Marcus Pilkington, 38, to shoot people if they rise
on a $50,000 bond but his from the ground and pho-
attorney says he may not tos of bodies lying in pools
be released until Monday. of blood in the restaurant
His bond would be a sharp parking lot.
contrast with the first biker The Associated Press on
to be released, Jeff Battey, Saturday published surveil-
51, who posted $1 million lance video and photos
three days after the shoot- from the Twin Peaks restau-
ing. Both men were injured rant where the shooting oc-
in the melee. curred. CNN first aired the
Nine people died and 20 video Thursday. The video
were injured during the shows one biker pointing
shooting, which authorities a gun while others crouch
