106 bikers indicted in Waco, Texas, restaurant shootout

WACO, Texas, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- A Texas grand jury indicted 106 bikers in a shootout at a Waco restaurant between rival gangs that left nine dead and dozens injured.

McLennan County District Attorney Abel Reyna said each defendant will be charged with engaging in organized criminal activity in the May 17 shooting at Twin Peaks restaurant. Another 80 bikers who were arrested in connection to the shootout will face a separate grand jury.

Reyna said the grand jury handed down indictments in all of the 106 cases presented. Of those, nine were sealed pending arrests.

"We are not done," Reyna said. "We still have a lot of work to do. We will continue to do that. My office is dedicated, as is the team, to seeing that justice is done in all those cases."

Authorities said the Bandidos and the Cossacks gathered at the restaurant to resolve their differences and it ended in a bloody massacre. In all, 239 people were detained from the event and 177 were charged. Nearly 500 weapons were recovered. Some bikers at the scene said police made indiscriminate arrests during the incident.

Surveillance video from the scene showed bikers running for cover with weapons drawn as the shooting erupted.