In early 2009, a series of gang-related shootings occurred due to what police describe as a gang war in Vancouver. Alleged participants include the Independent Soldiers, the Sanghera Crime Group,[1][2] the Buttar Gang, the United Nations Gang, the Red Scorpions, and the Vancouver chapter of the Hells Angels.
Gang-related homicides and shootings
Gang shootings have been the subject of intense media coverage in Vancouver in 2009. These events include:[7]
[edit]January
20: Jamie Bacon's car shot at while driving through Abbotsford. Bacon was the subject of an unusual public warning issued by police earlier this year, suggesting anyone dealing with him could be at risk.
22: Forty-two-year-old man wounded in an apparent robbery at Abbotsford marijuana grow-operation.
23: Two men wounded by shots fired outside Abbotsford home.
24: Occupant of a Surrey home wounded by early-morning shots fired through door.
27: Andrew (Drew) Cilliers, 26, shot outside a home in what appeared to be a targeted attack.
29: William Peter Canning, 65, New Westminster resident, found slain in an east Vancouver apartment building.
[edit]February
1: Tyson Edwards, 21, Burnaby resident, stabbed outside a nightclub in downtown Vancouver.
2: James Ward Erickson, 25, shot in an apartment in Surrey.
3: Brianna Helen Kinnear, 22, found shot in a truck in Coquitlam.
3: Raphael Baldini, 21, was shot in a busy parking lot in Surrey.
6: William Wayne Cloud, 19, stabbed to death in a house.
6: Kevin LeClair, 26, Surrey man was shot in the parking lot outside a Langley grocery store.
8: Man wounded in shooting in west-side Vancouver parking lot.
11: Nicholas Gordon Smith, 24, shot in the basement of a house.
12: Shots fired at a Burnaby home, no suspect found.
16: Driver wounded after shots fired at SUV outside Surrey strip club; police later arrest five people, charge two with attempted murder.
16: Nicole Alemy killed in Surrey while driving husband's car with four-year-old son in back seat.
17: Shane Alan Messent, 24, shot while committing a home invasion.
22: Man known to police wounded in shooting in east Vancouver.
26: Cory Stephen Konkin, 30, shot in his car in Maple Ridge.
27: Man shot outside Surrey home in what police call targeted attack.
[edit]March
2: Sukhwinder Singh Dhaliwal, 32, was found shot dead.
3: Young woman killed and man wounded in shooting at Burnaby apartment.
3: Sunil Mall, 27, shot in his car in East Vancouver.
3: Shots fired in drive-by shooting outside suspected drug house in Surrey.
5: Man shot in drive-by shooting at Vancouver home.
10: Two men shot and killed in an apartment.[8]
15: Laura Lynn Lamoureux, 36, gunned down in a Langley gutter early Saturday morning.[9]
19: Unidentifed man, 33, found shot to death in the parking lot of Hi-Knoll Park.[10]
30: Sean Murphy, 21, shot to death in his car on Bateman Road and Latimer Street.[11]
31: Ryan Richards, 19, found shot to death in a field behind a produce store.[11]
[edit]April
4: Unidentified man found shot to death in an SUV.[12]
6: Lionel Tan, 24, shot to death outside a gas station.[13]
15: Betty Yan, 39, found shot to death in a grey Mercedes at a dark industrial Richmond strip mall.[14]
[edit]May
1: Joseph Randay, 18, and Dilsher Singh Gill, 17, were abducted and then shot to death in an abandoned SUV.[15]
12: Damon Michael Martin, 33, found shot to death with a shotgun lying on a road in the Panorama Ridge area of Surrey.[16]
16: Christopher Roy Whitmee, 34, shot to death on 76th Street and 57th Avenue in Cloverdale, a town centre in Surrey. Another man was critically injured.[17]
28: Sarjbit Nagra, 29, shot on a Maple Ridge street. Drove himself to hospital where he died of his injuries.[18]
[edit]June
11: Jeffrey Qi Feng Bian, stabbed to death in an 18th-floor Yaletown condominium.[19]
30: Jaswant Rai, 36, found shot to death in an SUV on Mount Lehman Road between Townshipline Road and Downes Road.[20]
[edit]July
13: Unidentified South Asian male found shot dead inside the A Canadian Autobody and Painting workshop in Surrey.[21]
16: John William Hanna, 25, found dead in a burned-out car in Burnaby, killed in a targeted hit.[22][23