have you ever been in a situation
where one decision changed your life and everyone's life around you one decision that
sends you on a one-way trip to the penitentiary and someone else to the afterlife Scott Junior
Ereckson was in that very position the scene the San Diego California 1982 Junior and his
brothers into the bar and who was there the enemy a member of The Outlaw motorcycle club
a member of the Hells Angels what really happened that night well let's hear it
directly from the source Scott Jr Ereckson I'm Scott Jr Ereckson and this is my story [Music]
so I just got this apartment had been bit down for the night and I get a phone call
he said hey we're going to a bar and we need you to come get security so when they tell me that
the type of things that we were doing the way we were living down there when they told me that I
knew that I needed to come with nothing on no patch no insignias and I knew that I needed to
be low profile I knew I needed when I came in that bar I couldn't look I couldn't talk to any
of my brothers I had to go grab a drink I had to go sit down you know I was strapped at the time
and I was there to tap these guys and uh I had no problem doing that the watering hole we went to
was also known for Hell's Angels we went there once in a while but it was more of a
I think a red and white type of bar I mean we were so tight in in in the mix of those
guys every time we went to a bar if we didn't recognize the bikes we knew it was them I mean
if you go to any bar and they'll come roll on it it was like local bars they'll come rolling
and we can roll on it I mean the cops it could be at any time sooner than that bar one night
and it was in Lemon Grove so I was up in this little booth and I'm minding my own business
and I'm I was drinking a seven up and grenadine I had to you know keep sharp and I'm looking where I
see this guy playing pinball she's got a gal with him and uh at the time my Bros were shooting pool
and uh kept looking and he kept talking to the girl and she kept looking and I just said
something was wrong he's nervous he was telling her stuff you keep looking so she gets up and she
goes to the phone so when she goes to the phone that Drew my attention like okay something's
going on here so I went around and I'm next to him now he's on a pinball game but you know
he's faking playing pinball but he's he's really just eyeballing everybody yeah so I'm standing
I'm watching playing pinball and I'm watching him and I look and I see a the lights were dim
was like two o'clock in the morning and I see a sparkle on his finger it's a ring and I'm looking
he's hitting there he's in the the buttons and the sparkle keeps going every time he moves his finger
I look and I closer and it's a freaking death head it's a death it's a Hell's Angel ring I go
back and I sit down and I'm thinking to myself okay so the guy that was the P for us that that
night I settled in to go in the bathroom and and he came in and he just was going on and I said I
said I got one dude he said he's sure I said I got one and I said what do you want to do so he
tells me he says you know what he says it's uh it was probably it was probably a good decision he
says you know he says it's a lot of people in here right now there was probably 15 20 people he says
we've all been in here he says I don't think this is the time to do it uh and my argument
to him was well look no one knows me I'm in this I'm in a hoodie and got tennis shoes on I
said why don't you guys just pull out and I'll pop this guy and I'll walk out the back door
yeah that's on and everything no no he didn't have nothing all I saw was that ring but but
your brothers have they oh they were all flying their colors yeah yeah so they said nah there's
they've been fingered here don't do it I said all right I said okay he says he says let's do
this he goes let's just fuck this dude up because this make a fucking statement with this guy right
and uh just handle it right now and I said I got it I said I got it and they said all right
so they went back to playing pool and I came back out went back to the pinball game now when I came
back to a pinball game he was gone he had like gone to the phone or whatever so I'm looking
and I noticed there's a there's a quarter still in the game so I started playing it sure enough
he comes walking back around he tells me he says hey hey dude he says I had a quarter in that game
well I said well I thought you left he says well I didn't leave and I said okay so I backed off
I look at I said hey you know what and he looks at me I said fuck the Hell's Angels
and when I told them that he was just in shock I could see in his face he could not believe I
was saying that and didn't even know how I knew he was he was just a shot so as I
finish the sentence I I clipped him right in the chin when I clipped him in the chin he dropped
but but when I clipped him I had a 38 the 38 fell out of my belt so when he dropped he landed almost
right on that 38. so now all of a sudden we're it's it's a fumble it's a football fumble and the
football is a 38 and we're fighting for the ball so we're wrestling for this thing and I get it
the minute I get it he got up and he was trying to get out of there he was he was he was yelling he
was going on yeah and uh you know I had I got that gun out and all these things were going through
my mind don't do it do it don't do it the only thing I could think about as a at that millisecond
was everything that had brought us to this point with these guys all the all the beatings all the
all them shooting at us all the shit and shingles and red beard everything had come to a a point in
my mind and and you know what I just pop onto that gun I let it fly I Let It Rock and the
thing that was so unique about the incident you know maybe it's uh got to do with death
or or death is going to happen because I had the same feeling on a motorcycle crash but everything
went into slow motion frames on this thing and I swear everything was going so slow that I swear I
saw the bullet leave the end of that gun it was coming out that slow wow so the Bullet hit him
and it span him and uh as he was going towards the door he I guess he already was hit once I
fired another round uh but I'm pretty sure that missed as he's going for the door one of
our guys cracked him over the back with a bar stool he went down by this time everybody was
out the door everybody in the bar our guys were out the door everybody in the bar was face down
and uh I walked up to and let him have it again and uh there's a way that they look
there's a way in their eyes there's a color in their skin that when it happens you know
it's done it was done so you know people ask me how I feel about that and I'm going to explain
you know looking back in retrospect I I feel bad about taking a life I mean
it was a Mother's Son but you know we were at War man all I saw was an enemy
and uh uh it was something that had to happen at the time for our our club did progress and to gain
the respect that we needed to get I mean we didn't have any respect we were such a small Club I mean
we were fighting we were fighting locals back we were fighting Cowboys in the bars that they
didn't have respect for us we were well known we were considered a neighborhood Motorcycle Club
and once this happened people looked at us differently so like I said
uh am I happy that I did it I don't know uh but it had to happen I'm I'm glad it happened and uh and
it happened so when once it happened you did you get locked up right there on the scene or did it
happen after no so what happened was we all went to that little apartment that I had rented and the
bro and the brothers were angry at the time with me they're going man what did you why did you do
that and I just kept saying you know I I don't know it was just a reflex and and uh I said I
just I said I'm just tired I said I'm just tired of fucking with these dudes I said I'm sorry you
know I just did it and they said dude if we got to feel what we're gonna do so what happened was
we all went our well we waited that night in the apartment because we didn't know
for sure if the guy was dead I knew he was dead because I know I could tell
they kept telling me are you sure are you sure he's dead actually I he's dead dude so we waited
and about four or five o'clock the news came on and it said that uh Hell's Angel was slain at
the so-and-so bar uh uh and they thought it was a another motorcycle club I don't think they put our
names out of time and uh so everybody kind of took all I think we took off I took off to Oklahoma
at the time and changed my name I had a connection out there and got a new ID and was running with
the brothers out there in Tulsa so I was out there probably for six months and they caught wind of
what was going on and then uh they started kicking indoors in Oklahoma looking for me
so then uh I hadn't left from Oklahoma to Texas and um I got noticed from the club at the time
uh through uh through a goal between that they already got an attorney and they had somehow
pretty much discussed a deal the deal was for me to come back in and uh they were going to try to
get me a manslaughter for this thing so what I did is I talked about it and discussed it with a
few people and went ahead and turned myself in so when I got back in all the brothers were there the
brother's ever with me that night and I told those guys I said look I said I did this shit I said
but not be announced you guys knowing about it I said you told me not to I said I did
it I said uh I'll take the rap and the guy was was impressed at the time tells me he says hey
he says you know what you're doing I said yeah he says you've been in a fucking life sentence
I said I know I said I'll take the L man so you guys who I've been doing no time but isn't it when
isn't premeditated murder life but when it's like a you know random you bump into each
other somewhere inside happens and somebody dies isn't that manslaughter well you got to see here's
here's the deal what it was is we had ongoing conflict so they were taking the scene of the
match they were and that's everything but Gang Related deal so the guy who was the president my
chapter at the time tells me in front of everybody else is no he says we're all doing the time he
says you're not getting the life sentence yep and there was a there was another three of them well
there was four of them I'm not going to talk about the fourth one of what happened but the
three of them that stood at it were solid we all went to prison together they did that time for me
wow and um I mean I can't utmost display of Brotherhood that's like one in a million I don't
even think like any you know like how many people you really hear do that you know no and these guys
all did well well uh I got the most amount of time on that I did eight years I think the prez got six
the other two guys got four and uh you know what we all went to the pen nobody whined and nobody
cried we did our time what was that Dynamic like because I know in California everything is like
Race So if you got a lot of brothers that's like Chicano and like you're with the woods like how
does that work in in the prison system okay so when I went the first time there was about there
was a lot of Hell's Angels in the system you're talking about the state of California they had
about it about a half a dozen of us locked up at a different facility so what so what they were
doing was you know when I went to classification together that classification tells me he says
you know he says there's a war in the street he goes better anyway you know he says there ain't
going to be no war in my freaking pen is what he told me so what what they did is they had us
there's about seven or eight of us at one institution we kept us separated from the other
guys now while I was there they had sent a couple of sleepers to try and hit me when I was in there
so but we had the thing there were so many of us there we had people in the in all that worked in
we had people here people there so as soon as this guy hit the yard we knew about it so uh we
told those guys send them to our yard so when they sent him we were already waiting for him
so when he came in the yard I just went right up to him I said I know you I know why you're here I
said I said you got to get up out of here I said are you gonna make it you're gonna make it a day
turned around went right to the man and got out wow yep in the next episode of the Scott
Junior Ereckson story you talk about the Queen Mary situation between the Mongols
and the Hell's Angels at the Easy Rider bike show thousands of people there and
it all boiled down to one altercation and this is what cemented the Mongols MC in California