KELOWNA, B.C, Canada - Members of at least three different gangs were in the vehicle targeted in a brazen public shooting outside a Kelowna hotel Sunday afternoon, The Vancouver Sun has learned. Red Scorpion gangster Jon Bacon was killed in the targeted attack and Hells Angel Larry Amero was wounded.
Police told a news conference in Kelowna, B.C., on Monday that two women were also injured and a fifth person fled after a hail of bullets witnesses say were unleashed at a vehicle by someone wearing a balaclava and carrying an automatic weapon outside the Delta Hotel.
The injuries were not considered life-threatening and police believe the shooting was a targeted hit. Officers did not identify any of the other victims, including the Hells Angels member.- Another member of a third gang, the Independent Soldiers, also was reported to be in the vehicle and was not injured.
Police would also not confirm that report, nor would they say which of the three gang members might have been the target of the shooting.- Bacon, 30, along with his brothers Jamie and Jarrod, was thought to control the Red Scorpions gang, which was at the center of a bloody gang war that played out on the streets of Metro Vancouver nearly three years ago.
Meanwhile, gang experts say the shooting in Kelowna will spur more violence.
Doug Spencer(left photo), a former Vancouver police officer who has been involved in more than 1,000 gang investigations, said there will almost certainly be retribution for the shooting of a Hells Angels member.
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