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Two of them, Tanvir Khakh, 20, and Gursimran Sahota, 24, were charged Monday with first-degree murder.
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July 25, 2022 • 12 minutes ago • Read 3 minutes • Join the conversation The brother of a gangster shot to death in Vancouver’s Coal Harbor was gunned down outside a Whistler hotel on Sunday, 24 July 2021. Photo by Submitted photo /jpg
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Two gang-linked men have been charged in the midday Whistler murders Sunday of prominent Brothers Keepers gangster Meninder Dhaliwal and his friend Satidera Gill.
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The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team confirmed Monday that counts of first-degree murder had been sworn against Tanvir Khakh, 20, and Gursimran Sahota, 24. The two were among five people arrested in Squamish less than an hour after Dhaliwal and Gill were shot outside the sundial. Hotel at 12:19 p.m
Both appeared in North Vancouver Provincial Court on Monday and were remanded in custody until their next court appearance on August 4.
Sources say both have links to the UN gang, which is one of the groups locked in a deadly gang war with the German Keepers over the past five years that has left dozens dead and injured .
A car was found burning in the Blueberry Hill area of Whistler on Sunday afternoon. Photo by Submitted /jpg
The other three suspects were later released, but IHIT’s deputy. Mandeep Mooker said that “further inquiries are ongoing in terms of avenues of inquiry for others who may have been involved.”
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BC RCMP’s top officer, Assistant Commissioner Dwayne McDonald, praised Mounties for the quick arrests, which came just 36 minutes after the attack hit tourists and residents.
“I want to know that these incidents are a stark reminder of the danger our officers put themselves in on a daily basis to maintain public safety,” McDonald said. “Simply put, our police officers are here for you. They are heroes and I am proud to serve with them.”
Sahota was charged in 2019 with three drugstore robberies in Surrey and Delta, along with Karman Grewal of the UN. Grewal was shot dead at Vancouver Airport on May 9, 2021, in a targeted attack believed to be one of several in retaliation for the killing of Dhaliwal’s brother Harb in Vancouver’s Coal Harbor on April 17, 2021.
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Grewal’s murder remains unsolved, but Meninder Dhaliwal was one of the suspects, as was Brothers Keepers member Jaskeert Kalkat, who was gunned down in the parking lot of Burnaby’s Market Crossing mall on May 13, 2021.
Meninder Dhaliwal, 29. Photo by BC-CFSEU/PNG
A hitman named Francois Gauthier pleaded guilty in BC Supreme Court last month to second-degree murder in the killing of Harb Dhaliwal.
After his brother was killed, Meninder chased the hitman two blocks and stabbed him in the eye. But he was not charged. He was also not charged after police seized a loaded handgun bearing his fingerprints near the Surrey clubhouse of the Hardside chapter of the Hells Angels in November 2020.
Sahota was convicted on 25 July 2019 of three counts of robbery and one count of disguising one’s face with intent to commit a felony. He was sentenced to two years in prison, two years of probation and a lifetime firearms ban.
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Khakh has no previous charges or convictions.
Meninder Dhaliwal is believed to have been the target of the hit. His friend Gill was not part of the gang and worked for his family’s particular business, although both were “known to the police”.
Sup. Duncan Pound of the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit said even groups involved in the Lower Mainland’s gang conflict sometimes kill for reasons other than retaliation. Some of the killings are part of the wider violence. Others may be for personal reasons. And sometimes they stem from internal gang disputes, he said.
“I just think it would be, it would probably be premature to start saying, ‘OK, we can establish that there are these homicides that occurred for these reasons.'”
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McDonald said the latest shootings are part of the “ebb and flow of gang violence in our communities.”
“The people we believe are involved in this latest incident in Whistler have a long history and their gangs have a long history of conflict. And as always, it is dominated by drug dealing, personal vendetta and control of the drug market. illicit substances. There are usually only two ways to end it for the people involved, which is through death or prison.”
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