4 years after Twin Peaks shooting, only 1 biker stood trial

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KCENTV by  Jasmin Caldwell 5/17/2019

Officers arrested 177 people at the Twin Peaks shooting in 2015. Four years later, only one person has stood trial. All of the other cases have been dismissed.

 Four years ago terrified diners were forced to take cover after shots rang out at a Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco.

What is now known as the deadliest biker shootout in U.S. history left nine people dead and 20 wounded.

Waco will not soon forget photos from the scene, showing bikers, some with guns blazing, crowding the restaurant.

“A great majority of them had guns, hatchets, knives and other deadly weapons with them,” McLennan County District Attorney Barry Johnson said.

Police arrested 177 bikers, but two years after the shooting Jake Carrizal, a vice president of the Dallas chapter Bandidos, would be the first and only biker to stand trial.

“I’m a Bandido. I’m looked at like a criminal,” Carrizal said.

Carrizal’s trial ended in a hung jury. Just a few months later, former District Attorney Abel Reyna dismissed more than half of the cases.

Reyna lost to District Attorney Barry Johnson in the 2018 election.----

Wright said a judge projected they wouldn’t see a trial date until 2022 or 2023.

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Four years later: Twin Peaks survivor hopes to change biker profiling

https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/four-years-later-twin-peaks-survivor-hopes-to-change-biker-profiling

A Twin Peaks shooting survivor says he trying to rebuild his reputation after he was one of the bikers arrested at the Waco restaurant in 2015.

Friday marks four years since the deadly shootout at the Waco Twin Peaks.

“This was a scheduled meeting,” said Paul Landers.

Landers said he got to the restaurant early that day to set up for a meeting about biker profiling, recent biker legislation and their rights on the road. “That day was different because there were people there that never participated at all in what we do,” he said.

He said he was hanging a banner when he heard the first shots. “Some automatic fire broke out, obviously not small arms fire broke out,” he said.

Nine people were killed and at least 20 were critically injured. If you were there as a biker, chances are you were arrested by Waco Police.

Landers was one of them. “That incident happened 12:30, one o'clock. We were on the hot concrete in 97-degree weather until five that evening. People (were) looking for a restroom. It was total chaos. You don’t know what’s going on, who’s involved. Then we sat on the bus until midnight. I was in handcuff until midnight, plastic cuffs,” he said.

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