Jeffrey Jethro Pettigrew Hells Angel Boss Dead in a shootout

Jeffrey Jethro Pettigrew Hells Angel Boss Dead in a shootout , Jeffrey "Jethro" Pettigrew, the 51-year-old head of the motorcycle gang's San Jose chapter, was killed late Friday by his rival gang in a shootout that sent hotel guests and gamblers diving under tables at John Ascuaga's Nugget hotel-casino, police said. Two members of the Vagos gang also were wounded.

The gunfight apparently sparked a retaliatory drive-by shooting several hours after the casino gunfire, prompting Mayor Geno Martini to declare a formal state of emergency. A motorcyclist was injured after he was shot Saturday morning.


Jeffrey Jethro Pettigrew Hells Angel Boss Dead in a shootout

Multi-city motorcycle  Festival organizers had said they expected up to 30,000 visitors to this year's event, which began Thursday and was to run through Sunday in Reno, Sparks and Virginia City.

The man who was injured during the drive-by shooting had been riding a motorcycle near the public square where the festival was anchored.

Witnesses to the casino shootout described chaos erupting after a group of Vagos club members was confronted by Hells Angels members at the Nugget. Daniel Sharp, of Stockton, Calif., told the Reno Gazette-Journal that within five minutes, shots rang out: "It was mayhem."

Joe Franco, of Reno, said he saw one Hells Angel member pull out a gun after he was knocked to the ground in a fistfight.

"He was down with the bloody nose, gets up and pulls out the gun, and that's the first shot" apparently at the man who punched him, Franco told the Gazette-Journal.

The casino was evacuated and put on lockdown around midnight. The Nugget said in a statement that the casino and all its restaurants had since reopened, but that in addition to its own "extensive security force," uniformed officers would patrol inside the casino for the rest of the weekend. ( news for : Jeffrey Jethro Pettigrew Hells Angel Boss Dead in a shootout )




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update : while Jeffrey Jethro Pettigrew funeral
on october 16 at Oak Hill Cemetery another hells angels 
member was shot, and died  an hour later at the hospital
Realted news : Jethro Pettigrew 
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It's been long story about this rivality between this gangs, San Jose Chapter Hell Angel and The Vagos gang,  Story began when authorities in Arizona arrested more than two dozen members of the these two gangs in August 2010 after a shootout between them that ...
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