CNN to air special about Waco biker shootout

It hardly seems like nearly a year has gone by since a biker shootout at a Waco Twin Peaks made national news, but the first anniversary of the deadly event is this Tuesday.

On Monday, CNN will commemorate this with a CNN Special Report, Biker Brawl: Inside the Texas Shootout.” Maybe it’s just us, but isn’t “brawl” too weak a word for a Sunday-afternoon gunfight in which nine men were killed, more than a dozen were wounded and 177 were arrested?

Ed Lavandera of CNN’s Dallas bureau, who has been reporting on this for the past year, will anchor the report, which will feature, according to a release, “graphic surveillance video, dramatic dash-cam footage, crime-scene photos and investigative documents — much of it obtained exclusively by CNN.”

Aside from the above statistics, 480 weapons were confiscated after the shootout between the Bandidos and Cossacks motorcycle clubs. Lavandera (who worked for WFAA/Channel 8 in his pre-CNN days) will talk to members of both clubs, including Jeff Pike, president of the Bandidos, and members who were involved in the shootout.

The hour-long special is scheduled to air at 8 p.m. CDT Monday on CNN.

This story was originally published May 13, 2016 at 12:46 PM with the headline "CNN to air special about Waco biker shootout."