Another Gang Banger Shot Dead In Surrey
Greg Carr
heartfelt words of his buddy Lance on Global News if you are driving a
gang member home from a bar and he is carrying a gun you are a gang
ber yourself. Why would anyone with a loaded gun ask an unarmed freind
to give him a lift? Chose your freinds a little more carefully. I used
to drink and I never asked anyone for a ride home. Take a cab, walk,
pick up a girl, shoot a HA guy with wheels. Don't drag someone else
into it. The Surrey RCMP are looking for a Gold SUV that fled the
scene.
BOAZ JOSEPH / THE LEADER http://www.surreyleader.com/
Police investigators at the scene near 72 Ave. and Scott Rd., where a
man was found dead in this car Friday morning.
By Dan Ferguson
Staff Reporter
May 15 2005
Whoever wanted to kill a man in an new-model Audi sedan littered the
parking lot of the Mac's convenience store near Scott Rd. and 72 Ave.
with shell casings early Friday morning. At least one witness reported
hearing about eight shots close together, then a pause, then several
more shots in a row about 1:15 a.m.
His name had not been released at Leader press time.
Surrey RCMP Const. Marc Searle said the investigation by a team of
officers from the regional Integrated Homicide Investigation Team
(IHIT) was in its preliminary stages."It's too early to give an
indication as to the possible circumstances surrounding the incident,"
Searle said.
Traffic at the busy intersection was tied up for several hours Friday
morning while police cordoned off the scene of the shooting - a
section of Scott Rd. and the gas station across the street - while
forensic investigators took photographs and measurements.
It's the second murder in Surrey in less than a week, following the
weekend shooting death of 23-year-old Inderjit Singh Rai who was
discovered fatally wounded in the 9800-block of 140 St. last weekend.
Anyone with information about either murder is asked to contact the
IHIT Tip Line at 604-543-9217, or if you wish to remain anonymous call
Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS.
According to Lance on Global News his freind who was shot dead wasn't
a gangmember. He was just giving a ride to a guy coming home from a
bar with a loaded gun. Suppossedly the guy getting the ride came out
of the Mac's store and opened fire on the SUV as it was leaving.
Drug trade fuels violence
Indo-Canadian youth exploited by Hells Angels, distraught dad says
http://www.canada.com/vancouver/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=b4900861-fb1f-4473-b24b-aa3c5a048024&page=2
Kim Bolan
Vancouver Sun
Saturday, May 14, 2005
Hells Angels are criminalizing Indo-Canadian youth by using them in
organized crime, says the prominent father of a young man charged this
week in connection with an April 26 kidnapping and assault.
Harjit Singh Atwal, a former member of the International Sikh Youth
Federation, said the Hells Angels should be banned in Canada, just as
the ISYF and Babbar Khalsa were banned.
Both groups were barred by the federal government in June 2003 as
terrorist organizations for their violent support for the creation of
an independent Sikh homeland they called Khalistan.
Atwal's son, Bobby Harminder Singh Atwal, was one of six people
charged with a series of offences related to the kidnapping of another
young Indo-Canadian man. The father of the kidnap victim was also
involved in the ISYF.
One of the others charged in the April 26 kidnapping, Jethinder Singh
(Roman) Narwal, was also charged in the May 2 kidnapping of another
man. Narwal's father Avtar is a former Babbar Khalsa leader.
Narwal, who remains in custody, is now facing three sets of kidnapping
charges involving different alleged victims.
One is alleged to have taken place last January, the second is the
April 26 incident and the third group of charges relates to the May 2
abduction of an Abbotsford man from his Coquitlam workplace.
Harjit Atwal said many young Indo-Canadian men in Surrey such as his
son Bobby are being used by bigger players in organized crime who are
involved in the drug trade.
"I am not denying there is some fault on their part but the bigger
fault is on the Hells Angels," Atwal said in an interview.
"Organized crime is doing all these things and nobody [is] doing
anything against them.
"It is not only my son -- the whole of Surrey is involved, all the
Surrey kids are involved," he said. "It is not one or two families.
"I don't know how many but they are all each other's friends and they
are slowly dragged into it."
Rick Ciarniello, spokesman for the Vancouver chapter of the Hells
Angels, called Atwal's comments "nonsense."
"People are always trying to deflect their problems toward us and by
doing so away from them.
"People should take responsibility for their own actions," Ciarniello
said.
"If his son is not guilty, then he should plead so and put his fate in
the hands of the courts. It is still up to the Crown to prove its
case."
He reiterated the club's long-time position that it is not a criminal
organization despite what the police say about it.
"In spite of the fact that some Hells Angels have been convicted of
criminal activity, the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club is not involved in
criminal activity in any way."
Atwal said he is a friend of the father of the kidnapping victim and
went to the man's house after he heard about the April 26 incident, in
which the 23-year-old was grabbed, taken to several locations in
Surrey and beaten before escaping.
"It doesn't have anything to do with the parents. These are the kids.
They have grown up together. They have gone to one school and they
know each other," Atwal said. "It is organized crime. I tried to go
deep and dig. I tried to investigate myself where these problem
started."
Atwal said he doesn't think the groups that have sprung up recently to
counter the Indo-Canadian youth violence are having much success.
"They just keep talking the last two or three years. ... They have to
go to the roots and find out why these problems are coming out and who
is responsible.
"Sure everybody's blaming Indo-Canadian boys. But there is somebody on
top of them who is using them, who is doing all this and police know
this and I don't think police like to put blame on to those people."
Harjit Atwal has faced his own legal challenges. In May 1986 he was
charged with several other ISYF members in the attempted murder of a
visiting Punjabi cabinet minister. But the case against him was thrown
out after it was learned that Canada's spy agency had lied on a
wiretap affidavit.
And in May 2001, he was charged with obstruction of justice for
allegedly trying to silence a witness in the Air India case, something
he always denied. That charge was stayed in 2003.
RCMP Insp. Bob Paulson, who investigates outlaw motorcycle gangs,
declined to comment on Atwal's views about the Hells Angels.
Charged along with Bobby Atwal and Narwal in the April 26 incident
are: Mandeap Singh Johal, Jasraj Singh Bains, Harkamal Singh Cheema
and Gurdip Singh Sidhu. All are Surrey residents.
Charges against Narwal and seven others in the May 2 kidnapping were
announced earlier this week by Abbotsford police.
© The Vancouver Sun 2005
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Basically some of the most violent people in BC are admitting that
their sons and daughters are 100% owned by HAMC and they can't even
come up with the name of one biker.