In early 2009, a series of gang-related shootings occurred due to what police describe as a gang war in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
[6] Likewise, another report in 1999 that Pickton had a freezer full of human flesh in his house was dismissed by the police as more ramblings from another drug addict.
On 8 September 2007 while celebrating a birthday party at the posh Quattro on Fourth restaurant in Kitsilano, two masked gunmen marched up to the window and opened fire at the table where Gurmit Singh Dhak, the co-boss of the Dhak-Duhre group, and his 21-year-old girlfriend were sitting.
Joushua Hedrick had a been of a Hells Angels puppet gang, known as "the Crew", in Prince George, but had moved in with his mother in Maple Ridge in an attempt to get away from the gangster lifestyle.
[10] Bacon was driving his black Mercedes-Benz SL55 convertible on the South Fraser Way when a SUV pulled alongside him after he stopped for a red light and a group of gunmen opened fire on him.
[14] Later on the same day of the Port Moody warning, an associate of the brothers, Raphael Baldini was gunned down in Surrey as he was talking on his cellphone while sitting in his car in the parking lot of the Guildford Town Center.
[16] Jourdane Lal, the sister of the two Lal brothers killed in the Surrey Six massacre, praised Baldini in a public Facebook post, writing: "no words can explain how our family will miss your smilin [smiling] face, you are one of the few who truly cared, who cried tears not for us, but with us, i [I] can hope to show the same love to your family as you always showed for us, thank you for being there, they'll take care of you up there...rest peacefully my friend".
[17] Kinnear had worked as a drug dealer, selling cocaine, marijuana and Oxycontin together with her boyfriend Jesse Margison and best friend Tiffany Bryan.
[17] On 6 February 2009, a Bacon brother associate, the mixed martial arts fighter Kevin LeClair, was shot in the front of the Marketplace IGA grocery store at the Thunderbird Centre and died the next day.
[21] As she was driving only with her 4-year-old son and the windows of her Cadillac CTS coupe were clear, it is believed that this was not a case of mistaken identity, but rather that her killers had targeted her intentionally as a way to bring grief to her husband.
[21] The murder of Alemy finally changed public opinion in the Lower Mainland and people began to supply information about the underworld.
[20] For the first time, the police phonelines for tips was overwhelmed as thousands of people called in to supply potential information about the Alemy murder.
[20] Two of the callers identified themselves as long-time members of the Red Scorpions who both stated that they were disgusted by the cold-blooded execution of a mother in front of her 4-year-old son, and the information they supplied proved to be very useful to the police.
On 17 February 2009, the gangster Shane Messent of the Red Scorpions, in a case of mistaken identity, shot Aleem Mohammed as he was answering the door to his parents' house.
[23] On 2 March 2009, the gangster Sukhwinder Dhaliwal of Abbotsford was found murdered in his automobile in Delta with the cause of death being shot several times.
[24] On 3 March 2009, the gangster Sunil Mall of Abbotsford, a former member of the UN gang who joined the Red Scorpions, was murdered, being found shot dead in his car.
[29] In an interview with Kim Bolan, the crime correspondent of The Vancouver Sun newspaper, Karbovanec stated that hearing Eileen Mohan on television had inspired him to "come clean".
[31] Another Red Scorpion, Albert Jackman-who had a tattoo of LeClair's face on his body-found this joke so unfunny that on the night of 8 May 2009, he tied Willock to a chair and used a sledgehammer to beat him bloody, leaving his bedroom soaked in his blood.
[39] Juel Stanton, a "full patch" member of the Hells Angels who worked as a debt collector with a criminal record going to back to 1988 was considered to be extremely volatile and violent.
[43] After a lull in late 2009 and early 2010, the gang war resumed with the fatal shooting of Gurmit Singh Dhak in the parking lot of Metrotown shopping mall in Burnaby B.C.
[45] In October 2010, a group of Hells Angels led by a "full patch" member of the East End chapter, Joseph Bruce Skreptak, were arrested in a van in Salmon Arm.
[46] Skreptak and other men were all acquitted of the weapons charges, but the arresting officer, Staff Sergeant Kevin Keane of the Salmon Arm detachment of the RCMP has stated: "I think it's fair to say they were up to no good".