Posted on 08/30/2008 5:37:43 AM PDT by rellimpank
The Meade County State’s Attorney said Friday that members of the Hells Angels initiated a bar scuffle that led to the shooting of one of club’s members at the Loud American Roadhouse in Sturgis earlier this month.
Meade County State’s Attorney Jesse Sondreal said in an e-mail that the investigation has revealed the Hells Angels “instigated the assault” in a fight with the Iron Pigs on the evening of Aug. 9.
The two clubs got into a fight just before the shooting, according to witnesses at the scene and authorities. The Iron Pigs is a national motorcycle organization made up of police and firefighters.
Seattle Police Detective Ronald Smith, an Iron Pig member, has admitted to shooting Hells Angel member Joseph Patrick McGuire, who was hospitalized after the incident. But Smith, 43, said in newspaper interviews that he was attacked by a group of Hells Angels and that he fired at McGuire in self-defense.
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lol
This is too much, like a bad movie script!
Apparently the only thing the two gangs really have in common is what they ride.
So let’s just all blame Harley Davidson!
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