Brothers Keepers gangster Barinder (Shrek) Dhaliwal was hit twice when a gunman opened fire Saturday evening near a Langley property owned by his parents.
The suspected shooter was also struck by gunfire, dying on rural 84th Avenue between 200th and 196th streets.
Dhaliwal, a longtime gangster once connected to the Red Scorpions and the Bacon brothers, managed to escape in a small black Volkswagen SUV and was pulled over by police on 208th Street, near 78B Avenue.
He was taken to hospital as RCMP officers checked the vehicle, removing and bagging several exhibits before the SUV was towed away. He is expected to recover.
The man who died at the crime scene was from Alberta, sources said.
The Alberta man had allegedly targeted Dhaliwal before there was an exchange of gunfire, sources also said, adding that there may have been others at the scene.
The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team said that Langley RCMP responded to the shots fired call at about 6 p.m., locating both victims.
“This investigation is ongoing and the neighbourhood canvassing continues for both CCTV footage and witnesses,” Staff Sgt. David Lee said in a news release Sunday. “The deceased victim has been identified, but the name is being withheld pending notification to their family.”
He said the “victim was known to police and initial information indicates that this shooting was a targeted event, linked to the ongoing B.C. gang conflict.”
And he added that the anti-gang Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit has been called in to help determine the associations of those involved.
Anyone with information or video footage from either location between 3:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Saturday is asked to contact IHIT at 1-877-551-4448 or [email protected].
Postmedia has learned that Dhaliwal’s parents own a house on 83rd Avenue — about two blocks from the crime scene. There was a police presence at the home on Sunday.
Two years ago, Dhaliwal, 41, was one of several people listed on a CFSEU poster for alleged involvement in organized crime-related violence.
“Police believe that anyone with, or in the proximity to these individuals, may be putting themselves at risk,” the agency said at the time. “CFSEU-B. C., in collaboration with its partners, is issuing a public warning and identifying them in order for family, friends, associates, and the public to take measures to increase their own personal safety.”
The poster was issued just a month after Dhaliwal’s youngest brother Meninder was gunned down outside a hotel in Whistler. Two young men — Gursimran Sahota and Tanvir Khakh — were charged. They are due to go to trial early next year.
Dhaliwal’s other brother Harpreet was shot to death in Vancouver’s Coal Harbour on April 17, 2021.
A hired hitman name Francois Gauthier later pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.
Dhaliwal has been on police radar since his younger days when he hung out with Jonathan, Jarrod and Jamie Bacon in Abbotsford.
In January 2011, there were shots fired at his family home on Bradner Road, which narrowly missed his sister.
He later became associated with the Brothers Keepers gang, which has been locked in a violent conflict with the United Nations and some Red Scorpions over several years. Shootings of members and associates of one group are often followed within days or weeks with retaliation.
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