For the second time in a year, a full-patch member of the Hells Angels Hardside chapter has been murdered.
Postmedia has confirmed that Suminder (Ali) Grewal, a member of the motorcycle club’s newest B.C. chapter, was shot dead Friday morning at the Southpoint Exchange mall in South Surrey.
Surrey RCMP said the shooting occurred around 9:20 a.m. in the drive-through shared by Envision Financial and a Starbucks.
Surrey RCMP Cpl. Elaine Sturko said first responders tried unsuccessfully to revive a man with a gunshot wound.
Two people were seen fleeing in a vehicle and later on foot. Sturko said both were arrested.
“Initial indications are that this is a targeted incident,” said Sturko.
Last November, Chad Wilson, 43, another member of the Hells Angels Hardside chapter, was found murdered under the Golden Ears Bridge.
Grewal and Wilson were both former members of the club’s Haney chapter in Pitt Meadows before helping form the Hardside chapter in Surrey in early 2017. Mounties in Surrey reviewed all legal means to block the setting up of clubhouse, but had no legal authority to deny anyone from purchasing or renting a residence.
The Integrated Homicide Investigative Team has now been called in to take over the Grewal murder. And IHIT continues to investigate Wilson’s murder.
Police are still probing several theories in connection with the Nov. 18, 2018 slaying of Wilson.
Grewal was the Hardside Hells Angel who created a formal link between his chapter and the volatile Brothers Keepers club. That alliance meant that conflicts the Brothers had with other clubs, or over specific incidents of violence, could then become issues for Grewal, too.
The Brothers Keepers has had a much more direct involvement in shootings and murders that have become part of what police describe as the Lower Mainland club conflict.
A heavy police presence remained hours after Friday morning’s shooting at the Southpoint Exchange located at 32nd Avenue and 152nd Street.
A car, possibly a Dodge Viper, remained parked behind police tape and partially covered by a tarp in the Starbucks drive-through lane.
A Starbucks staff member who answered the phone at the Southpoint location directed all questions to the company’s public relations department.
When asked if the store was still open, the staff member said “I can’t comment on anything.”
Source: Vancouver Sun