Bar brawl among rival biker gangs turns deadly in Southern California

[ad_1] Two males, reportedly members of the Mongols motorbike membership, have been arrested in reference to a lethal bar brawl earlier this 12 months in San Bernardino County, federal officers introduced.

The violence, based on a information launch from the U.S. Division of Justice, unfolded within the early morning hours of March 4 at a bar in Ontario.

Prosecutors say the Mongols members, 51-year-old Montclair resident Clifford “Buckshot” Lavoy and 31-year-old Upland resident Julian “Juls” Pulido, violently attacked a member of Vagos, a rival biker gang, recognized solely as “V.S.” in court docket paperwork.

V.S. was reportedly contained in the bar carrying Vagos membership member gear when he was approached by Pulido and Lavoy, who allegedly demanded the sufferer present respect to them as members of the Mongols.

An ensuing argument escalated when the Mongols members overpowered V.S., assaulting him by punching him within the face, kicking him within the face, head and neck and choking the rival gang members, prosecutors stated.

Members of the Mongols motorbike membership seen in Southern California on April 26, 2019. (Picture by Invoice Alkofer/ by way of Getty Photographs)

“When the sufferer tried to expire of the bar, Pulido allegedly pulled out a gun and shot the sufferer a number of instances within the again, inflicting the sufferer to fall via the door of the bar and bleed out on the sidewalk,” the discharge detailed. “The defendants then fled the scene.”

V.S. was declared lifeless at 2:45 a.m.

Not lengthy after, Pulido was noticed by legislation enforcement, main them on a nine-hour chase via 5 California counties.

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“He was arrested after crashing a black Dodge car right into a ditch throughout a high-speed chase alongside Freeway 46 close to Misplaced Hills in Kern County,” prosecutors stated. “On the time of his arrest, Pulido possessed the identical Mongols-branded clothes he had worn on the night time of V.S.’s homicide.”

Greater than a month later, on April 15, Lavoy was arrested in Whittier the place he was booked and later launched, based on the discharge.

He has been charged with assault leading to severe bodily damage in help of racketeering, with Pulido being charged with homicide in help of racketeering.

The Mongols, an outlaw motorbike membership, reportedly fashioned in California within the Sixties and was integrated in Montebello. Vagos was additionally reportedly based within the early Sixties in San Bernardino.

If convicted as charged, Pulido faces a compulsory minimal sentence of life in federal jail, with Lavoy going through the opportunity of a most sentence of 20 years.