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A day after Vancouver police issued a rare public warning related to six “targeted” gangsters, B.C.’s anti-gang agency has released a poster featuring the names and photos of more men who could be marked for violence.
The Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit said the 11 people on its list pose a risk to anyone near them throughout the Lower Mainland.
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The poster features three men identified by the Vancouver Police Department, as well as eight others from various gangs involved in the violent Lower Mainland conflict that has left 41 dead or injured so far this year.
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Police and politicians tried again Friday to allay public fears after the latest fatal shooting, this time of a Brothers Keepers gangster suspected of being linked to Sunday’s gang murder at Vancouver airport.
Jaskeert Kalkat, 23, was gunned down about 8:30 p.m. Thursday in the parking lot of Burnaby’s Market Crossing mall at Marine Way and Byrne Road.
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Two other people were also shot, a man and a woman who were also “known to police, ” said Sgt. Frank Jang of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team. They were taken to hospital with “severe injuries, but they are expected to survive.”
Posted: Jan 27, 2021 8:19 AM PT | Last Updated: January 27
Police tents were set up Wednesday morning at the scene of a fatal shooting in Langley, B.C. (CBC News/Yvette Brend)
One man is dead and another is in hospital with gunshot wounds after several shots were fired in a residential neighbourhood in Langley, B.C., on Tuesday night.
Police said Langley RCMP officers responded to reports of gunfire at 207th Street and 53A Avenue at approximately 11:38 p.m. PT and found a 22-year-old man shot dead inside a vehicle and another man, also in his 20s, alive but injured.
Police say they expect the injured man to survive.
Frankly, you need to stop : Police, politicians call for end to gang conflict in Lower Mainland
Five people have been killed in Metro Vancouver in recent weeks. All the victims including a 14-year-old boy were known to police or associated with gangs.
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Posted: Jan 12, 2021 8:17 PM PT | Last Updated: January 13
Police tape surrounds an area of the Morgan Heights neighbourhood of Surrey, B.C. where Gary Kang, 24, was shot and killed on Jan. 6.(Martin Diotte/CBC)
After five deaths including the murder of a 14-year-old boy from six gang-related shootings in Metro Vancouver over the past few weeks, police and politicians are calling for a ceasefire.