温哥华市警对该案非常重视,昨日假日亦特别举行记者招待会公布案情,透露死者并非温哥华警方的熟悉人物,暂时亦不清楚凶案动机,市警已将死者的电脑主机取走进行调查。
不过,皇家骑警对死者却有所认识,昨日未有在温市市警要求下,已主动派员到场了解,不排除会与国际刑警联系,深入了解死者遇害原因,但皇家骑警及温市市警均拒绝证实该案是否与近日发生的多宗黑帮仇杀案扯上关系。
据《温哥华太阳报》指出,死者与大圈帮(Big Circle Boys)有来往,大圈帮为分布在大陆,港澳,美国东西岸及加拿大温哥华、多伦多的黑帮,加拿大犯罪情报服务将大圈帮列为英属哥伦比亚省主要的亚洲犯罪帮派,他们伪造信用卡、行贷款诈骗、毒品、假货、货币走私。
温哥华警方发言人范宁(Tim Fanning)昨日召开特别记者会时表示,该案是今年第18宗命案,发生於前晚11时10分左右,45岁华裔男子Raymond Hung Chao Huang(中文译音:黄宏超)返家时,将车停在街边,走回卡地亚街(Cartier St.)3800号路段的豪宅时,突然遭到枪手伏击。黄遭乱枪扫射,倒在家门围墙的入口处。
范宁指出,当时豪宅内住有黄的母亲及女儿,黄的母亲立即叫10岁的孙女致电911报案。警方听到女孩在报案中说出「我爸爸被人开枪射击」,警员及急救人员很快赶到现场,发现黄倒在血泊之中,已经没有生命迹象。警方在现场寻获多枚弹壳,相信凶手连开多枪。
警方初步调查后,怀疑凶手是有预谋地在黄家门口埋伏,等候黄返家时,连开多枪务求将黄置诸死地。警方也认为凶手可能不止一人,应该是一宗经过精密计划的有目标暗杀行动。
料为精密暗杀骑警不请自来助查
范宁透露,黄并非温哥华警方熟悉的人物,警方仍在深入调查凶手的动机。但温市市警会与皇家骑警甚至国际刑警联系,设法了解死者生前更多的背景资料。温市警方也会深入调查近月来发生的多宗黑帮枪击事件,与黄被杀案是否有所关连。
范宁强调,温哥华市警在案发后并未要求皇家骑警支援,但昨晨在案发现场却出现皇家骑警警官在场,范宁不愿对此多作评论。但据本地英文电视台报道,死者是皇家骑警熟悉的人物。警方指,黄是从香港来加,全家人住在桑那斯豪宅区。案发当时黄的年迈母亲及女儿在屋中居住,黄妻则不在屋内。
警方昨日封锁死者伏尸的大屋及隔邻一户大屋一带地方调查,下午3时左右陪同4名华裔男女进入现场,包括一名男子、两名妇女,以及一名女童。警方在入黑后才把现场解封,现场随即有一名妇女及一名女童,在死者伏尸的豪宅大门口烧冥镪,却不愿接受本报记者访问。
警方取监视录影带及电脑追查
案发现场四周的豪宅都设有监视录影机,警方已经将黄家及四邻的监视录影带收集起,带回警署调查。此外,两名探员昨日下午4时左右,也进入黄家将一部黑色的电脑主机带走,但并未透露调查细节。
范宁昨日也承认,温哥华近年的枪击事件确实有恶化的趋势,而且已经不限於罪案频繁的地区。他指先前西区有人在知名餐厅内遭黑帮寻仇扫射,现在顶级住宅区内又发生预谋杀人案,显示枪手并不会选择地点来作案。警方呼吁市民如果对此案件有任何线索,或是前晚曾见到案发地点附近有可疑车辆停泊,应尽快致电604- 717-2500与警方联系。
canada News:Gang member gunned down
A man associated with the notorious Big Circle Boys has been gunned down in front of his mansion in Vancouver's Shaughnessy.
Vancouver police say Hong Chao "Raymond" Huang was shot numerous times in an apparent targeted murder Saturday night.
Vancouver police investigate the shooting death of Hong Chao "Raymond" Huang in front of his mansion in the 3800-block Cartier Street in Vancouver yesterday. The shooting occurred late Saturday as Huang was returning home.
Huang's 10-year-old daughter called 911 to say her dad had been shot. He was dead when police arrived. Numerous shell casings littered the ground.
Huang, 45, was "well-connected" to the Asian organized gang, a police source told The Province last night.
"We know the name . . . You would rank him as a Dai Lo [Big Brother] . . . somebody of influence who could organize stuff and make things happen . . . He is quite high up there," said the source.
The Criminal Intelligence Service of Canada lists the Big Circle Boys as the main Asian organized crime group in B.C., dealing in credit-card fraud, loan sharking, drug smuggling and counterfeit goods and currency.
"He is known to keep a low profile, driving around in small cars," said the source.
He said he believes that Huang is on the radar of some Vancouver police and RCMP officers after being linked to "one or two" money seizures involving amounts between $70,000 and $100,000. "I am not sure what has happened to these cases," he said.
Meanwhile, Vancouver police spokesman Tim Fanning said investigators will start comparing notes with other jurisdictions today.
"Ultimately, we're looking for a motive," Fanning said.
"Part of our investigation will be to speak with other police agencies, both in Canada and abroad. We'll certainly check if this is tied to other shootings." Huang was returning home, and police believe the killer or killers either laid in wait or had tailed him.
"It looks like he was coming home -- he had just parked his car," said Fanning. "He was either followed or they were waiting for him.
"This is a startling and horrific attack in this neighbourhood." Fanning said Huang was from Asia or Hong Kong.
It was Vancouver's 18th homicide of the year. Some other shootings have been linked to gang activity.
Yesterday, residents in the tony neighbourhood were still shaken by the killing.
"I heard rat-a-tat-a-tat-tat," said Terrie Hashimoto of the shooting at 11:10 p.m. "I thought it was fireworks. Then I heard the sirens, and all the police cars were coming around the corner." Hashimoto said she didn't feel right about the new owners, who paid $3.7 million in 2003 for the mansion in the 3800-block Cartier Street, a huge yellow home on a corner lot with stone walls and security gates and cameras.
"They have two very large dogs," she said. "The German shepherd scares you to death. It looks like it's going to jump over a six-foot wall to get you." Hashimoto said the latest shooting may be enough for her to move to somewhere safer.
"I've lived here 35 years -- I don't know my neighbourhood any more," she said. "My husband is getting ready to retire as a physician.
"I think maybe we should sell the house." Neighbour Huadi Chen was quaking with fear when approached at her front door.