On April 28, in a shooting that crippled the supply of cocaine to the Dhak-Duhre group, Tomas Gisby (47) was shot and killed in Puerto Vallarta (Bolan, 2012d). In a prior April incident unrelated to the Dhak-Duhre side of the conflict, Asian gang member Justine Po (36), who had been involved in the murder of Lotus gang boss Raymond Chan, was shot and killed. He was the second person involved in Chan's death to be murdered. Po had pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact and had served his jail time (A. Campbell, 2012)
On May 2, long-time and feared gangster Ranjit Cheema (43) was shot and killed outside his home within three months of being released from a California prison (Pole & Clancy, 2012) The same month, another Dhak-Duhre group associate, Bin Toor (35), was shot and killed in Port Moody (Bolan, 2012d).
On June 25, another long-time gangster, and founder of the Independent Soldiers, Randy Naicker was shot and killed in Port Moody after leaving a Starbucks (Bulman, 2012). In the final chapter of the Dhak-Duhre group's conflict with the Red Scorpions, Hells Angels, and Independent Soldiers. Thomas Mantel and Suk Dahk were shot and killed as they exited the Executive Inn Hotel in Burnaby on November 26, 2012
Chapter Conclusion
As I conclude this article, stakeholders must face the harsh reality that violence and gangs in Vancouver are not new, nor are they a product of this new generation. They have been a part of the city's history for almost as long as the city has existed. In this article, I demonstrated that from 1909 to 2012, gangs were consistently violent: there were murders, there were shootings and there were gang fights. Innocent bystanders were shot, maimed, injured, and killed Policymakers can't blame the new generation, media, police, video games, or rap music. The violence was there in the past, possibly even more so than today; there were running gun battles on the streets and gangsters shooting shotguns over the heads of Sky Train commuters. The nostalgic view of gangs in BC as being less violent simply is not the case. This recognition of our violent history with gangs in BC is important because as the community of stakeholders seeks to reduce gang violence, we must face the truth that it has always been part of our social fabric. This research about the history of gangs in BC situates us well for the analysis of how BC gangs are currently constructed and the rational choices members make to join gangs, as opposed to BC's historical gangs. In addition, this research also illustrates the value of the field observations and interviews for comparative analysis
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