The Washington Post has published an extensive outline gathered from one anonymous witness who was present and provides an inside account to the Waco “Twin Peaks” biker shooting.
The article provides a perspective, albeit all hat and no cattle, from one witness along with a backstory to the shooting from the perspective of an ongoing dispute between the Cossacks and the Bandidos Motorcycle Club.

However, the outline, while the first to make sense of the origin, should be taken with a note of caution as some details contradict other known elements, such as MC affiliations widely accepted as factual.
The story relies on a single anonymous source, and some of the construct is hearsay related from a third party the Post was unable to reach.  That said, it is cogent, plausible and -for the most part- the most complete account so far of what actually happened in the immediate moments when the violence first began.

WASHINGTON POST […]  The Cossack, president of a North Texas chapter of the motorcycle gang, asked not to be identified because he is now in hiding and said he fears for his life. He is a rare eyewitness speaking publicly about the Waco massacre, one of the worst eruptions of biker-gang violence in U.S. history.

[…]  He said that the Cossacks were invited to the Twin Peaks patio that day — by a Bandido leader, [Marshall], who offered to make peace in a long-running feud between the two gangs.

[…]  Marshall invited the Cossacks to Twin Peaks on Sunday when the Texas Confederation of Clubs and Independents was scheduled to hold a major meeting. Those meetings are generally about bikers’ rights, safety and other administrative issues. The Bandidos dominate that organization; the Cossacks are not members.

[…]  Most participants in the violence, and eye-witnesses to it, are in jail, in the hospital or dead.

[…]  The Cossack said he and the others congregated on the outdoor patio [shortly after 11am] and started ordering food and drinks. They chatted with other bikers from smaller “mom and pop” bike clubs, who were already well into their burgers and beers and margaritas ahead of the 1 p.m. confederation meeting.

[…]  The parley with the Bandidos had been set for 11 a.m., the Cossack said, but the Bandidos didn’t arrive until about 12:15, when about 100 of them pulled into Twin Peaks in a long, loud line of Harleys.

Trouble started almost immediately, he said: One of the Bandidos, wearing a patch that identified him as a chapter president, ran his bike into a Cossack standing in the parking lot. The Cossack who was hit was a “prospect,” a man in his mid-20s who was “striving to become” a full member of the club.

“They came up really fast, and the prospect turned and faced the bikes,” the Cossack chapter president said. “He fell backward into other [parked] bikes. The guy who hit him stopped and got off of his bike and said, ‘What are you doing? Get . . . out of my way. We’re trying to park.’ ”

Cossacks quickly jumped to the prospect’s defense, he said: “Guys were saying, ‘You’re disrespecting us,’ or, ‘We’re not backing down.’ ”

In a blink, it started, he said: “Two punches: One from them, one from us.”

A Bandido with a patch identifying him as sergeant-at-arms of the same chapter threw a punch at Richard Matthew Jordan II, 31, known as “Richie,” who was from Pasadena, Tex. Jordan punched the guy back.

“At that point in time, the sergeant in arms shot Richie point-blank,” the Cossack said.

Police said Jordan died of a gunshot wound to the head.

“Then all the Bandidos standing in the parking lot started pulling guns and shooting at us,” he said. “There were maybe 60 or 70 of us in the parking lot. . . . We took off running. We scattered. Three of our guys went down instantly. They caught a couple more that tripped and fell, and Bandidos were shooting at them.”

He said that the second man to die was Daniel Raymond Boyett, 44, known as Diesel, a “road captain” in the Cossacks from Waco. Police said that Boyett died from gunshot wounds to the head.

The third man down was “Dog,” whose real name is Charles Wayne Russell, 46, of Winona. Russell’s cause of death was listed as a gunshot wound to the chest.

The Cossack said that he believes the Bandidos had no intention of making peace that day. “It was a setup from start to finish,” he said.

[…]  The Cossack’s account is also consistent with a Twin Peaks security video viewed by the Associated Press. The wire service reported that the video shows the shooting started in the parking lot at 12:24 p.m. and that panicked bikers started running into the restaurant to flee the shooting — including several who ran into the men’s room to take cover.  (The full story available here)

Here are the notable issues within this witness outline as reported:

♦ First and foremost, it’s the Washington Post. Notorious for specific, activist and agenda-driven slanted stories.
♦ This story accounts for 3 of the 9 dead.  What about the other six.  Additionally there were a total of 27 shot/wounded.  Nothing from the witness about how it became so extreme?
♦ This report goes from “punches” directly to “shots fired”; and doesn’t construct, outline or question the moment-by-moment scene, other than a chaos sentence after the first shot was fired, despite the reporter(s) expending exhaustive text on the backstory.
♦ Nothing at all within the story about police response.  Just a big looming nothing.
♦ Prior affiliation outlines from MC’s, contradict the author’s source and say no Bandido’s were actually among the dead.
♦ No mention of anyone seeing the heavy police presence in the area.  It doesn’t even come up in the article at all. Was it even questioned, or were they that well “hidden”.
♦ If you read the full article it builds up based on threats to government, and it finishes off based on threats to government.  The factual bits in the middle are almost an afterthought, (that’s where the “all hat and no cattle” comes in) which highlights an agenda in the authorship.

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