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VANCOUVER Eileen Mohan knows what it’s like to lose someone to gang violence. Her only son, Christopher Mohan, was shot and killed when he was 22-years-old, one of six people murdered, in the spree of killings dubbed the Surrey Six. Mohan and another man, Ed Schellenberg, were both innocent victims. “It’s been 14 years, but for me, it’s like yesterday,” Mohan said, “holding my own dead son in my arms.” Mohan has been watching the escalation in gang-related gun violence across the Lower Mainland, including high-profile public assassinations, with horror and the sense that history is repeating itself.
B.C.’s high court Jan. 28 upheld murder convictions for two men involved in the notorious 2007 Surrey Six mass murder. The murders saw six people executed in a Surrey highrise apartment in 2007, . . .
They were then shot. In 2014, Cody Rae Haevischer and Matthew James Johnston were both sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty on six counts of first-degree murder. The pair was also found guilty of one count of conspiracy to commit murder. “None of the grounds of appeal that would have resulted in a new trial are upheld, and the verdicts of guilt are affirmed,” the BC Court of Appeal said in a short statement. The court said appeals are allowed to the extent of quashing their convictions and remitting the matter to the trial court for an evidentiary hearing on the applications for a stay of proceedings for abuse of process.”
VANCOUVER - Two men found guilty of British Columbia's most notorious gang killings will be allowed to argue the case should be thrown out because their