Two dead on Abbotsford/Chilliwack border in suspected gang hit
Two dead on Abbotsford/Chilliwack border in suspected gang hit
BY KIM BOLAN, VANCOUVER SUN MAY 1, 2009
ABBOTSFORD - A devastated Abbotsford father wept Friday as he described how his teenaged son was grabbed at gunpoint Thursday and later found slain in a car on Sumas Mountain with another teen.
Amarjit Randay said 18-year-old Joseph and his friend Dilsher Gill, 18, were hanging out with a few pals in Bateman Park at dinnertime Thursday when a man pulled up in a car and pointed a gun at some of them.
He said Joseph’s friends told him his son confronted the gunman when he tried to grab two others in the group of teens, all high school buddies.
“All we know is that they were kidnapped at gunpoint last night and now they have found their bodies. The police said they are both dead,” Randay said. “Police have no leads.”
He said he has no idea why someone would kill his boy, who along with Gill, was a Grade 12 student at W.J. Mouat secondary school in Abbotsford.
“I just don’t know what happened,” the grief-stricken father said as he broke down and cried.
His son’s friends were at the family’s Abbotsford home consoling him Friday night. They have given statements to police, Randay said, but did not know or recognize the suspects.
His son lists as a Facebook friend Mike Ahuja. Ahuja’s older brother Sunny is a close associate of Abbotsford’s Bacon brothers. The Ahuja home was targeted in a drive-by shooting in March.
Randay said he did not know the Ahujas and that they had never been to his house.
Two other young men linked to the Ahuja clan were gunned down a month ago in Abbotsford.
Both Sean (Smurph) Murphy, 21, and 19-year-old Ryan (Whitey) Richards were drug dealers working for the Red Scorpions and were shot to death a few hours apart. Murphy was found in his vehicle in Bateman Park.
Cpl. Dale Carr of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team was not prepared to release the victims’ names Friday.
“They were discovered early this morning around 9 a.m. by some maintenance workers,” Carr said.
The workers were checking the area for stolen cars, which are routinely abandoned on small gravel roads on Sumas Mountain, Carr said.
“They go to check on this vehicle thinking it was stolen, and lo and behold, there are two young men slumped over in the vehicle. So we were called out,” Carr said.
He said there were signs of trauma on the victims, but no overt indication of what killed them. Carr said it is too early in the investigation to say when the pair died or whether the case is linked to gang violence or the drug trade.
The bodies of the two were taken out of the vehicle early Friday evening, Carr said.
“We have just removed the bodies of the two deceased to the hospital, to the morgue. And we are working on trying to identify who the two young men are,” Carr said. “We have to get the vehicle back to a secure bay so we can go over it with a fine-tooth comb.”
There has been a lull in deadly gangland violence after a series of high-profile arrests in March and April.
Charges were laid against four people linked to the Red Scorpion gang on April 4 in the Surrey Six slaying 18 months ago. One of those in custody is Jamie Bacon, the youngest of a trio of brothers targeted for death.
Also in April, three men linked to the rival United Nations gang were charged with conspiring to kill the Bacon brothers and their Red Scorpion associates. And in Vancouver, police charged several senior members of the Sanghera crime group with a variety of weapons offences.
http://www.vancouversun.com/dead+Abbotsford+Chilliwack+border+suspected+gang/1555254/story.html
The Vancouver Sun
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