Red Scorpions

Michael Le testified at the Surrey Six trial that he and Shirzad formed the Red Scorpions after meeting in a youth detention centre facility.

[6] The two founding members were the Thai-Canadian Edward "Eddie" Sousakhone Narong and the Vietnamese-Canadian Quang Vinh Thang "Michael" Le, both of whom lived in Coquitlam.

[10] In the summer of 2000, Le and Narong led their gang into the Hi-Max karaoke club in Coquitlam and beat Jung to death in the men's washroom.

[11] Both Narong and Le were charged with second-degree murder, but in 2002 in a plea bargain with the Crown both pleaded guilty to manslaughter.

[10] A key member of the gang was Anton Hooites-Meursing, who was born in Calgary in 1971 to a Canadian father and an Australian mother.

[12] The parents of Hooites-Meursing divorced and when he was 11, his mother abandoned him as he came from school one day to find a note saying that she wanted to live her own life and that he was now on his own.

[12] His youth consisted of what he called "a decade of gladiator school in the Los Angeles County jail system, which for anybody that is white is a total nightmare".

[18] A passer-by happened to notice one of the men talking at the Castle Fun Park had a gun and called the police.

[18] Arrested alongside Jamie Bacon were Randy Naicker and Bary Espadilla of the Independent Soldiers and Dennis Karbovanec and Anton Hooites-Meursing of the Red Scorpions.

He was earlier convicted of manslaughter for being in a group of teens who fatally beat another boy in a Coquitlam karaoke club in 2000.

[3] In March 2008, he fled to his native Vietnam fearing arrest on an ongoing investigation and a Vancouver police sting operation.

Moving later to Thailand, Hong Kong, and China, he was intercepted as he arrived in Manila, The Philippines on June 17, 2009 and was deported back to Canada.

The leaders of the Red Scorpions gang were attempting to extort $200,000 from Corey Lal and when he didn't pay, they ordered him killed.

[23][3] The Red Scorpions have been linked to some of the bloodiest shootings in the region and were behind the October 19, 2007 killing of six people in a suite on 9800 East Whalley Ring Road, a condominium complex known as Balmoral Tower.

Campbell was fatally stabbed in the neck on January 2, 2014 at the Abbotsford Auto Mall after an encounter with a member of a rival gang.

[27][28] Jonathan (also known as Jon), Jarrod, and Jamie Bacon were a trio of gangsters from Abbotsford, British Columbia[29] who are suspected of multiple firearms and drug trafficking charges.

[30] On April 3, 2009, Jamie was arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Emergency response team for his alleged involvement in the October 19, 2007 slayings of the 'Surrey Six'.

[31] This development occurred after an associate of the Bacon brothers, Dennis Karbovanec, pleaded guilty to his participation in the slayings.

[37] Jason McBride, Jujhar Khun-Khun, and Michael Kerry Hunter Jones are now charged in connection with the shooting.

On April 3, 2009, Karbovanec (born 1982) pleaded guilty in his role of Surrey Six high-rise slayings of October 19, 2007 after turning himself in.

He was convinced to become a Crown witness at the trial against co-accused murderer and accomplice Cody Haevischer and against alleged instigator Matt Johnston.

He admitted to playing a role in the conspiracy to murder Corey Lal, and acted as a police informant in the Surrey Six case.