EVERYTHING’S BIGGER IN TEXAS: Biker Thug Shootout Leads To 26 Casualties, 192 Arrests

By Bob Owens

A meeting at a restaurant in Waco, Texas between five biker gangs to “settle their differences” led to a bathroom brawl with fists that quickly devolved into chains, knives, and eventually gunfire from the bikers towards one another and at police. Waco police and Texas State troopers then attempted pick off those firing into the crowd.

It was a bloodbath, and criminal charges from those who were part of the melee are starting to stack up:

It happened in broad daylight — around noon Sunday, at the restaurant known for scantily clad servers and “bike nights.”

The fracas apparently started inside the restaurant’s bathroom with something as simple as a shove or a disrespectful glance, authorities told CNN affiliate KTVT.

That brawl quickly escalated into a fistfight, which led to a knife fight, KTVT said.

The brouhaha spilled into the parking lot, where the gunfire erupted, Swanton said.

Bullets flew toward police, who returned fire. No officers were wounded, and all of the dead and injured are believed to be bikers, Swanton said.

He declined to identify the biker gangs involved. By the time the scene cleared, CNN affiliate KWTX said, authorities had recovered more than 100 weapons.

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Source:: Bearing Arms