August 19, 2011
The killing of a Vancouver gang member at a casino in Kelowna, B.C., has stoked fears that a gang war could be underway even as the RCMP said it was too early to link the casino death to the subsequent shooting late Monday night of a man in Surrey, B.C., who has gang connections.
In Kelowna, Jonathan Bacon, along with his two brothers a member of the Red Scorpions gang, was fatally shot in broad daylight by a man wearing a balaclava on Sunday afternoon as he left a casino with five other people, one of them a Hells Angels member. Four of the other people were wounded, the CBC reporting one of the women in the car has become a quadriplegic because of the attack.
It is not clear if Bacon was the target of the killing but as the investigation unfolded, the RCMP dismissed talk that a statement was being made by the shooting.
The incident, in a favourite Canadian tourist destination, on an otherwise idyllic afternoon, stunned people in Kelowna. The town is taking steps to combat a known gangster presence in the area.
It is the second incident of violent crime to strike in the Okanagan Valley of B.C., known more for its boating lakes, fruit orchards and vineyards. On Aug. 3, the RCMP apprehended David Bobbitt, a fugitive wanted after a woman was discovered brutally beaten and assaulted in a Penticton, B.C., store Bobbitt operated.
In other Canadian criminal news, Romeo Cormier was sentenced to 18 years in prison on Thursday following his conviction last month on kidnapping and sexual assault charges. Cormier, 63, was found guilty of abducting a woman from a shopping mall, keeping her in a room for a month and sexually assaulting her.
The killing of a Vancouver gang member at a casino in Kelowna, B.C., has stoked fears that a gang war could be underway even as the RCMP said it was too early to link the casino death to the subsequent shooting late Monday night of a man in Surrey, B.C., who has gang connections.
In Kelowna, Jonathan Bacon, along with his two brothers a member of the Red Scorpions gang, was fatally shot in broad daylight by a man wearing a balaclava on Sunday afternoon as he left a casino with five other people, one of them a Hells Angels member. Four of the other people were wounded, the CBC reporting one of the women in the car has become a quadriplegic because of the attack.
It is not clear if Bacon was the target of the killing but as the investigation unfolded, the RCMP dismissed talk that a statement was being made by the shooting.
The incident, in a favourite Canadian tourist destination, on an otherwise idyllic afternoon, stunned people in Kelowna. The town is taking steps to combat a known gangster presence in the area.
It is the second incident of violent crime to strike in the Okanagan Valley of B.C., known more for its boating lakes, fruit orchards and vineyards. On Aug. 3, the RCMP apprehended David Bobbitt, a fugitive wanted after a woman was discovered brutally beaten and assaulted in a Penticton, B.C., store Bobbitt operated.
In other Canadian criminal news, Romeo Cormier was sentenced to 18 years in prison on Thursday following his conviction last month on kidnapping and sexual assault charges. Cormier, 63, was found guilty of abducting a woman from a shopping mall, keeping her in a room for a month and sexually assaulting her.
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