Warrants: Surveillance video reveals how motorcycle club members followed rival before his shooting death
Raleigh police investigating the January 2023 death of Jonas Padilla, a member of the Pagans Motorcycle Club, are reviewing video and audio captured from cameras at the intersections of Creedmoor, Lynn and Millbrook roads.
Five men, members of a rival motorcycle club, the Red Devils, are charged with his murder.
According to search warrants linked to the case, video shows Padilla being chased by five people on motorcycles and falling down an embankment into a yard.
A short time later, two people wearing motorcycle helmets walk down the hill and remove Padilla's "cut," or club vest, the warrants say. All five people then flee on their motorcycles.
The cameras show five motorcycles, one of them with female passenger, as they travel north on Creedmoor Road, make a U-turn at Lynn Road and travel back south. As the riders travel through the intersection of Creedmoor and Millbrook roads, the Padilla, on his bike, turns right onto Creedmoor Road from Millbrook Road.
The five male Red Devils are visible in the video wearing the vests that identify them as members that club, according to the warrants.
They dined at Bada Wings on Creedmoor Road immediately before the crimes were committed and video from the restaurant shows them using cell phones there. Police asked to search those phones as part of the investigation.
The warrant says cameras show the group stop on Creedmoor Road, and the woman gets off the bike she's riding and walks to the Walgreens parking lot nearby. The Red Devils riders then cross over the median to again travel north on Creedmoor Road in pursuit of Padilla.
Padilla's autopsy shows he was shot in the chest and leg.
Neighbors told WRAL News they heard gunshots after a motorcycle crash around 5 p.m. on Jan. 1, 2023, on Bayberry Lane near Fawndale Drive.
