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The victim says members of a biker gang beat him, and the police seek two other suspects.
By CHRISTOPHER GOFFARD
© St. Petersburg Times, published August 16, 2000
PORT RICHEY -- Police have arrested a man linked to a motorcycle gang and are hunting for two others in the brutal beating of a Port Richey man in June.
The victim, Charles W. Tillery, 42, had reported that three members of the "Pagans" motorcycle gang beat him with wooden clubs in the doorway of his Port Richey home on June 10, said Port Richey Police Lt. Bill Sager.
Tillery suffered several 4- to 5-inch cuts on his head and fractured vertebrae. Police say the bikers have a clubhouse near Tillery's house and he had argued with one of them two days before the attack.
Police declined to say what the argument was about but said Tillery was not a member of the gang.
Tillery, who spent about a week in the hospital, remembered hearing the name of the one of the bikers during the attack, leading police to 38-year-old Walker Everett Parker, Sager said.
An address check police ran on a car parked at the biker clubhouse led them to Parker's home at 7407 Country Club Drive in Hudson, where he was arrested on July 26.
Tillery picked Parker out of a photo lineup, police said. In a search warrant, served at Parker's house hours after the arrest, police seized clothing with biker insignias. One of the T-shirts reads, "Pagans Make the Thunder."
Parker faces a count of burglary with battery. He is free on $20,000 bail, Sager said.
Sager said the case remains under investigation.