NEW YORK — An alleged member of the Hells Angels was charged with killing another biker during fighting at a motorcycle and tattoo expo called the Hellraiser Ball.
More than 70 other people were in custody. At least 10 others were injured in the Saturday free-for-all in Plainview, N.Y., including four wounded by gunfire.
Hundreds of weapons, including knives, baseball bats, handguns, shotguns and an Uzi, were seized by Nassau County police and federal agents.
The violence was just the latest eruption in a long-running feud between the Hells Angels and the Pagans gang, said Nassau County Chief of Detectives Herbert Faust.
Authorities said the violence broke out when about 100 Pagans in a fleet of 10 vans showed up at the ball, an annual event sponsored by the Hells Angels' Long Island chapter. The Pagans invaded the hall wielding bats, knives, brass knuckles and other weapons, authorities said.
Nassau County police officers on surveillance duty called for reinforcements, and over the next two hours dozens of Nassau county officers, 50 from neighboring Suffolk County, and 20 state troopers tried to restore order.
Authorities charged Raymond G. Dwyer, 38, of Oceanside, N.Y., with second-degree murder in the shooting of Robert Rutherford, a purported Pagan member. Rutherford, 51, of Lancaster, Pa., died during surgery at North Shore University Hospital.
A dozen police officers took Dwyer to a court appearance Sunday.
Seventy-three people, all tentatively identified by police as members of the Pagans, were charged with rioting in the first degree, attempted gang assault in the first degree, and weapons charges, said Faust.
Two of the injured were in critical condition at Nassau University Medical Center, spokeswoman Shelley Lotenberg said.