Texas Bikers Restaurant shootout: Police Arrest nearly 200

 Nearly 200 people are in jail facing charges of engaging in organized crime.
The fight among rival biker gangs started in a restaurant and spilled into the parking lot
(CNN)Even before the melee that left nine dead began, police were already in place, expecting a ruckus.
What they saw was far more brutal than what they had anticipated.
Rival biker gangs unleashed a hailstorm of bullets outside a Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco, Texas, leaving nine people dead and at least 17 hospitalized.

"In my nearly 35 years of law enforcement experience, this is the most violent and gruesome scene that I have dealt with," Waco police Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton said.

By Monday morning, almost 200 people were in the McLellan County Jail facing charges of engaging in organized crime in connection with the shootout, Swanton said. Following his news conference, Swanton said that his initial estimate of 192 arrests may have been too high and the actual number is "in the 170s."
Prosecutors and investigators could elect to level other charges, including capital murder, he said, but the organized crime charge is "pretty serious."
"It doesn't get much more significant than that," he said.

The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission has shut down the Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco for the next week, but it's not a punitive closing, Swanton said. Rather, it's being shut down because there's "enough of a reason to believe that more violence would occur there, had they been allowed to remain open for the next seven-day period," he said.
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 said.
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.

'We had expected issues'
Swanton said five rival gangs showed up at the restaurant Sunday.
"As they were here, we had officers on scene," he said. "We expected issues."

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