By HUEY FREEMAN - H&R Staff Writer
DECATUR - Two motorcyclists wearing black leather vests bearing the Outlaw motorcycle club logo rode up to 22nd Street Discount Liquor, walked into the bar with two other Outlaws who arrived in a van and almost immediately were involved in fights with patrons inside, according to Decatur police reports.
The two motorcyclists, 51 and 40 years old, were arrested on preliminary charges of aggravated battery, felony mob action and burglary for their actions, which took place about 1:39 a.m. Sunday, April 11, according to a sworn statement by a Decatur police officer. The men who arrived in the van have not been identified.
Their actions, which lasted about three minutes, were filmed by the bar's surveillance camera.
When the four men entered the bar, a woman who arrived with them stayed outside the door "to prevent patrons from entering the business," according to the police statement.
As soon as the men entered the bar, one of the unknown men struck a bar patron several times in and around his face. That man, who did not fight back, was later treated at Decatur Memorial Hospital, where he received five stitches to sew up his lower lip.
When another man tried to separate the attacker from the first victim, the same attacker turned on him, striking him several times in and around the face. As the two men involved in this second attack moved behind the bar, the 51-year-old man went behind the bar, placing his hands around the neck of this victim while his fellow Outlaw continued to batter the man.
The 40-year-old man and the other unknown man stood behind the bar to prevent other patrons from intervening as the two men beat up the second victim. The 51-year-old man and his partner continued to batter the man for 25 seconds.
When they stopped beating the second victim, the four men wearing Outlaw colors walked single file toward the exit. Before exiting, the unknown man who first attacked a patron struck a third victim as he stood by the door. The third victim suffered a laceration on his head and a golf ball-size knot on his rib cage.
The 51- and 40-year-old motorcyclists were arrested Monday and booked into the Macon County Jail, and both were released Tuesday on $1,500 cash bail. Both declined to give statements to the police. They are scheduled to be arraigned May 21 in the Macon County Circuit Courts Facility.
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