December 3, 2024
A targeted shooting outside Cardero’s restaurant in Coal Harbour left Brothers Keepers gang member Harb Dhaliwal dead.

Why B.C. police target the shooters, but those behind the hits operate with ‘impunity’

Critics say the lack of charges against masterminds of dozens of public executions is one reason high-level organized criminals think of Vancouver as a safe haven

After killer Francois Gauthier gunned down a Brothers Keepers gangster on April 17, 2021, Vancouver police found a hit man’s kit inside his Coal Harbour Airbnb rental.An arsenal of firearms, suppressors and ammunition. GPS tracking devices. Four B.C. licence plates. Four cellphones. And a creepy silicone full-face mask.

On one of the encrypted phones police uncovered a message, dated a month before Harpreet Dhaliwal’s targeted murder.

“In position,” it said.

Details of the police search were contained in an agreed statement of facts entered as an exhibit when Gauthier pleaded guilty to second-degree murder on June 28, 2022.

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