Woman Says Slain Man Stole Biker’s Patch

A Ghost Riders motorcycle gang member stole the patch from a rival Hells Angels leader during a Hillyard bar brawl, a Spokane woman testified Monday.

Yolanda Fisette’s testimony contradicts a statement she gave police four days after Ghost Rider Sean Kilgallen was fatally shot outside the Comet tavern.

The 30-year-old woman, whose husband has been president of the Ghost Riders, told police in December she grabbed the Hells Angels “colors” from Timothy G. Myers.

But on Monday, the reluctant prosecution witness testified it was her late friend, Kilgallen, who had stolen the patch.

Kilgallen then threw the stolen patch to Fisette’s husband, but she caught it, Yolanda Fisette testified.

“Sean tossed the colors to Maggot and said he (Myers) didn’t deserve them,” she said.

After fleeing the shooting scene, the Fisettes took the stolen patch to a friend who arranged to have it returned the next day to the Hells Angels.

In biker culture, the theft of “colors” is an act of war. A member who loses his patch can face expulsion or even be killed, experts testified.

Myers, 42, is on trial in Spokane County Superior Court, charged with second-degree murder and first-degree assault. He is accused of fatally shooting Kilgallen and wounding a second man associated of the Ghost Riders.

Kilgallen ripped the colors from Myers and said he didn’t deserve to wear the Hells Angels’ death head emblem, Fisette testified.

Her husband, Kenneth “Maggot” Fisette, was subpoenaed to testify Monday, but failed to show up in court.

In 1994, when the Hells Angels first showed up in Spokane, Fisette lost his Ghost Rider colors in a brutal assault at the group’s clubhouse. The gang blamed the Hells Angels.

Fisette got out of jail over the weekend after posting bond on a burglary charge. He was arrested on that charge after he was caught allegedly breaking into the house of a woman who briefly kept the stolen Hells Angels colors.

If authorities can locate him, Fisette would testify today.

Yolanda Fisette said her husband and his friends, who are associated with the Ghost Riders, didn’t go into the bar intending to pick a fight with a Hells Angels member.

The shooting occurred after a fight inside, with Yolanda Fisette and others swinging stools, she testified.

When the fight spilled outside in 9-degree weather shortly before 2 a.m., she said, she heard two gunshots.

Defense attorney Bevan Maxey reminded the witness she told police right after the shootings that she heard four shots.

“So, which time were you telling the truth?” Maxey asked.

She snapped back that she meant to tell police she heard two gunshots “and two echoes.”

Myers, free on bond, is expected to testify later this week that he shot the Ghost Riders in self-defense.

, DataTimes