Fellow Bikers Pay Respects to Slain Hells Angel

More than 300 Hells Angels laid to rest Laurence “Large Larry” Lajeunesse on Monday, rumbling up to Oakwood Memorial Park in scattered groups of motorcyclists who formed one of the largest such gatherings of outlaw cyclists in recent memory.

Lajeunesse and his live-in girlfriend, Tammie Brannigan, 35, were found shot to death last week in their Chatsworth garage home and auto scrap business.

Lajeunesse was a senior member of the biker gang, which police and federal agents contend is involved in methamphetamine trafficking and other criminal enterprises.

Brannigan’s family held a separate service at the same cemetery only a few yards away from the mourning motorcyclists. Brannigan’s children, Cole, 14, and Brianne Brewer, 13, wept in the arms of their grandparents as the minister delivered the eulogy. The sound of motorcycle engines reverberated through the chapel walls.

Attending Lajeunesse’s funeral were members from Hells Angels chapters as far as away as Ohio, Indiana, British Columbia, England and Sweden.

Also in attendance were members of other biker gangs. “We’re all brothers in this motorcycle thing,” said a member of the Molochs motorcycle gang. “Took a lot of stupidity to kill somebody like Large.”

Michael Lajeunesse predicted that the Hells Angels would be looking for his brother’s killers, but he clung to the hope that the police would find them first.

“I want justice to be done,” he told the mourners.