Dwight Mushey (born 1968), better known as "Big Dee", is a Canadian outlaw biker, gangster and convicted murderer currently serving a life sentence for his role in the Shedden massacre of 2006.
[4] The journalist Peter Edwards described Mushey as a 6'3 man who liked to wear expensive Italian clothing and who modelled his fashion style after the character Sonny Crockett from the television show Miami Vice.
[3] Mushey was a successful businessman in Winnipeg who owned a house in the upscale neighborhood of River Heights, and was accused of importing methamphetamine into Manitoba from Ontario.
[5] The Canadian journalist Annita Arvast wrote: "Standing over six feet tall, with a slender but athletic build, long, dark hair typically neatly pulled in a ponytail, and refined, wire-rimmed glasses, he commanded respect".
[1] Mushey took in as a boarder, a MMA fighter, Marcello "Fat Ass" Aravena, who would also be convicted in the Shedden massacre trial.
[7] On 26 November 2005, Sandham and Mushey again visited Toronto to see Muscedere who refused the demand for the full charter status because of unpaid dues.
[3] On 14 January 2006, Mushey went to Vancouver to buy a kilogram of cocaine to sell in Winnipeg together with ephedrine, a chemical used for the production of methamphetamine.
[12] At about 4 pm on Friday, April 7, 2006, the day selected for the "church" meeting, Kellestine produced weapons from his secret gun cache.
[19] Mushey took the shotgun to Kellestine's garage to saw off part of the barrel to make it more deadly in close quarters, a decision that was later used against him at the trial to prove that murder was being planned in advance.
[21] As the "no-surrender crew" entered the barn at about 10 pm, Sandham used his rifle to shoot and kill Luis "Chopper" Raposo, the Bandido national treasurer.
[23] Two of the "no-surrender crew", George "Crash" Kriarakis and Paul "Big Paulie" Sinopoli, tried to run away, but were shot down and wounded by Kellestine.
[28] When it came time to execute Frank "the Bammer" Salerno, his last gesture was to shake Mushey's hands and to say to think of his newly born son Mario.
[31] Mushey drove a Pontiac Grand Prix automobile belonging to one of the murder victims, Michael Trotta, which left Kellestine's farmhouse at 32196 Aberdeen Line as part of a convoy early on the morning of 8 April 2006.
[32] As Flanz's car was almost out of fuel, the driver, Frank Mather, chose to dump it in a farmer's field just outside of Shedden, which was joined by the other vehicles.
[35] One of Sandham's men, who turned Crown's evidence and is only known as M.H., testified at the trial in 2009: "Dwight said that Head and Shoulders [shampoo] was good for removing gunshot residue".
recorded Mushey speak with much contempt about Sandham who lied to him about his gun being jammed and commented that just before he shot Flanz that his "eyes were wide.
[55] Kellestine's lawyer, Clay Powell, claimed Mushey had pressed on a note on his cell partition wall that read: "You're a dead man".
[58] Edwards wrote: "It is impossible to know how ice-cold Dwight Mushey, biker, assassin, martial artist and drug dealer, felt about portraying himself as a victim, but it cannot have been a role he was familiar with".
[60] On 21 October 2009, Mushey and Gardiner fired their lawyers and stated to Justice Thomas Heeny they were content not to have legal counsel for the rest of the trial.
[59] Both Hicks and Moon had blamed the murders on Kellestine and Sandham, which was viewed as "ratting" in the outlaw biking world, and Mushey and Gardiner seemed to have been trying to avoid that impression.