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New footage of a melee between rival biker gangs outside a Texas restaurant show the chaos that ensued as participants were shot, punched and beaten with chains. Police dashboard video shows a tight group gathered in front of the Twin Peaks patio before the brawl breaks out, wreaking havoc outside the Waco restaurant. Several bikers duck for cover as Richard 'Bear' Kirschner - who has been identified as a member of the Cossacks - is seen striking others with a chain, swinging it wildly over his head. Twenty seconds later, Kirschner is shot in the leg and the hip, staining the grass with blood - he was struck by the same caliber of rifle fired by Waco police. One biker can bee seen shooting while running backward away from the parking lot while another fires from the patio. A fight erupts shortly thereafter. The group quickly disperses, with many taking cover behind cars and trucks. Several people are seen running through the chaos throughout the video, as fighting takes place predominately on the right side of the screen. Department of Public Safety video shows one of the men who was killed, Jesus Delgado Rodriguez, tackling another biker brandishing a gun. The two wrestle on the ground until another biker approaches and appears to stomp on Rodriguez's head. The biker with the gun then shoots Rodriguez in the head and walks away. The video carries on, and shows several fights among the bikers. During one, a man punches another man and then shove one another for several seconds as a man nearby leans against a large black pole. John Wilson, a member of the Cossacks, said gunfire was coming from 'multiple directions' when he was in the middle of the violent uproar. He added that people who had been injured 'were allowed to bleed out in that parking lot' while police tried to defuse the situation. Rodriguez and Kirschner were two of the nine people who died in the May 17 brawl. Rodriguez, was the Sergeant at Arms For His Cossacks’ chapter, according to Heavy. The role is generally used to keep order among members during meetings and activities. It is unknown which biker club Rodriguez was a part of. The 65-year-old, who was called Mohawk by friends and family, was a purple heart recipient, according to the New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung. Four of the nine people killed in a melee between rival biker gangs outside a Texas restaurant were struck by the same caliber of rifle fired by Waco police. Bullets at the scene provide insight into whether authorities were responsible for any of the deaths as well as the 20 who were wounded. The latest trove of potential grand jury evidence depicts a chaotic, bloody scene in which police swarmed into the shootout between rival biker gangs outside the Twin Peaks restaurant and arrested nearly 200 people. Hours of audio and footage and hundreds of documents including ballistics reports show that four of the dead and at least one of the wounded were struck with bullets from .223-caliber rifles — the only type of weapon fired by police that day. Two of the four dead had wounds from only that kind of rifle; the other two were shot by other kinds of guns as well. The ballistics reports show that the rest of the people killed were shot by a variety of other guns. It was not clear whether any bikers had similar guns to the police that day. Among the hundreds of weapons authorities recovered from the scene were 12 long guns, which could include rifles. The Southwestern Institute of Forensic Sciences, which conducted the ballistics analysis, declined to comment on its findings. Waco Police Chief Brent Stroman had said in June that officers shot a total of 12 rounds using the semi-automatic setting on their .223-caliber rifles. Evidence showed some of those shots struck bikers, but didn't indicate whether they were fatal. Police and the district attorney's office declined to comment on the latest evidence, but have previously defended the officers' use of force, claiming that bikers had also opened fire on police. Authorities have previously cited a gag order in the criminal case of one of the bikers. In separate police video of the aftermath, several dead bikers are seen slumped on the ground, blood streaming from their wounds.