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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