Ambulances were parked nearby, but Rhyne spent his final moments with a young Cossack who desperately tried to staunch the bleeding with a bandanna. Witnesses say he convulsed and bled for up to 45 minutes, receiving no medical help from police who swarmed all around him. The details are sketchy, and Waco police havenвЂ™t done much to answer the lingering questions, but a melee involving an вЂњoutlawвЂќ club, the notorious Bandidos, left Jake dying in the parking lot of the Waco Twin Peaks, bleeding from bullet wounds to his neck and torso. That was until May 17, 2015, when a gunfight took his life, along with those of eight other men. Or with his вЂњbrothers,вЂќ the Cossacks, an obscure, 46-year-old motorcycle club thatвЂ™s part of the scenery in small, rural East and West Texas towns like Ranger but virtually unknown in Dallas and Houston. On weekends, he rode his Harley, with his teenage daughter Skyi on the back, long, blond hair flowing beneath her helmet. He still hung out with his ex-wife, Rocki Hughes, and he kept the high-school rings theyвЂ™d exchanged at their wedding tucked away in a box, along with old FatherвЂ™s Day cards. You couldnвЂ™t drag him away from his hometown, Ranger, Texas, a decrepit place that is nearly a century removed from its oil-field heyday. He worked at the same place for 19 years, pouring iron at a foundry.

Rhyne loved his kids and sports and Miller Lite. He could come off gruff, and he didnвЂ™t watch his language. His given name was Jacob Lee Rhyne, though most people called him Jake. He was a вЂњbig olвЂ™ bearвЂќ of a man, tall and strong and slightly rotund, with a long, ginger beard hiding a strong-jawed, handsome face.

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