Another gang shooting in BC just a day after Kelowna gang attack
Posted Aug 16, 2011 12:34:33 PM.
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SURREY – Less than 48 hours after Jonathan Bacon, one of B.C.’s most notorious gangsters, was gunned down in Kelowna, Mounties say a shooting Monday night in Surrey targeted a couple of men with well-known gang connections.
Around 10:40 p.m. RCMP received 911 calls about shots being fired outside a nightclub.
The main concern for neighbours is whether this targeted shooting is connected to Bacon’s death. “It’s too early to tell and definitely investigators will be looking at that,” says Inspector Randall Marquardt.
He adds two or three people and a car were shot at. The victims, who have gang affiliations, have minor injuries and are being interviewed by police.
“With what’s going on in the Lower Mainland, I think all the police agencies are vigilant and we’ll continue to do so as we move through the next few weeks,” adds Marquardt.
No arrests have been made as the gunman ran off.
‘The Wolfpack’
New details about Sunday’s shooting in Kelowna suggest some of the gang members in the targeted SUV in Kelowna were in the process of a super gang.
In “The Hangover” Zach Galifianakis’ character forms a bond with his friends and dubs them “The Wolfpack.”
Vancouver Sun crime reporter Kim Bolan says the loosely aligned gang of Red Scorpion Jonathan Bacon, Hells Angel Larry Amero and James Riach who was linked to the Independent Soldiers, took up the new name.
“These three organizations and these three individuals had formed a new criminal alliance. And all three of those guys were in the vehicle that was targeted.”
Riach is believed to be the man who was injured in the shooting, but took off before Mounties arrived.
