A member of the Hells Angels motorcycle club was shot Aug. 9 in an altercation at the Loud American Roadhouse bar in Sturgis during the Sturgis motorcycle rally.

A grand jury indicted an off-duty police detective, 43-year-old Ronald Smith of Seattle, Wash., for assault, but those charges were dropped after additional investigation found that Smith acted in self-defense in shooting 33-year-old Joseph Patrick McGuire of Imperial Beach, Calif. Investigators accuse Hells Angels members for starting the scuffle with Smith and other members of the Iron Pigs, a motorcycle club of police officers and firefighters.

Smith and three other law enforcement officers from Washington were originally charged with misdemeanor concealed weapons violations, but those charges also were dropped. A fifth Iron Pig, from Colorado, was charged with a misdemeanor violation.

McGuire still faces aggravated and simple assault charges in connection with the incident.

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