Nine members of a motorcycle gang were arrested in connection to a shooting at a Montgomery County Wawa that left six people hurt, according to the District Attorney’s Office.
An investigation began after the shooting happened on Friday, Oct. 17 around 9:12 p.m. at the Wawa located at 2544 West Main Street in West Norriton, officials said. The entire incident was caught on surveillance cameras.
The videos revealed that two members of the Unknown Bikers Outlaw Motorcycle Gang wearing their gang colors, or “cut,” were filling their gas tanks, according to officials.
Two minutes later, nine members of the Pagans Outlaw Motorcycle Gang were riding by on Ridge Pike when they saw the two Unknown gang members, officials reported.
The Pagan members entered into the Wawa parking lot and blocked the two Unknown members from leaving, police reported. A fight broke out.
During the fight, Pagan members appeared to be trying to remove the Unknown members’ “cut,” officials said.
This is when the gunfire erupted, according to the DA’s office.
Six people were hurt in the shooting, including two innocent bystanders, officials said.
One man was putting air in his vehicle’s tires when he was shot in the face while a woman who was standing by the Wawa store’s doors was shot in her torso, police explained.
The members of the Pagan gang fled the scene on their motorcycles, police said.
Officers found the Pagan members traveling eastbound on Main Street and pulled them over, officials said.
The officers realized that three of the Pagan members had been shot during the incident so they were taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.
Detectives who arrived to the scene said they found 14 spend shell casings.
George Cwienk III, 51, Joel Hernandez-Martinez, 36, George Hripto Jr., 50, Jason Lawless, 45, Manuel Baez-Santos, 34,Erik Dixon, 33, Luke Higgins, 29, Justin Noll, 34, Erik Rosenberger, 46, were all arrested on Oct. 30.
They were all charged with aggravated assault, riot and other related charges.
Baez-Santos, Cwienk, Dixon, Higgins, Hernandez-Martinez, Hripto, Lawless and Rosenberger are currently being held on $500,000 cash bail while Noll was placed on $50,000 unsecured bail while he undergoes medical treatment.
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Nov. 10, 2025 at 10 a.m.