Surrey North Delta Leader, September 26, 2013

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Seaquam falls short page 29

Singers salute silver screen for food bank page 32

Thursday September 26, 2013

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The Surrey Six case, six years later

‘I DON’T WANT REVENGE. I WANT JUSTICE.’

Trial begins Monday for three of six accused in B.C.’s worst gang attack by Sheila Reynolds IT WAS around 4:30 in the afternoon

on Oct. 19, 2007 when the Surrey Fire Department got the call. There was a report of several unconscious people on the 15th floor of a Surrey highrise – possibly the result of a gas leak. When crews arrived, it was apparent it was much more than that. Firefighters quickly realized they had a grisly crime scene in front of them and called police. Earlier that afternoon, six people had been shot and left to die in apartment 1505 of the Balmoral Tower, 9830 E. Whalley Ring Rd. Four of the deceased were young men known to police as gangsters with links to the drug trade. Dead were Edward Narong, 22, 19-yearold Ryan Bartolomeo, and brothers Corey and Michael Lal, 21 and 26 years old, respectively. The other two slain men, however, were regular people with regular lives – simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, police said. The killers, police speculated, didn’t want to leave any witnesses to the execution of the other four men. Abbotsford gasfitter Ed Schellenberg, 55, was servicing gas fireplaces in the building that afternoon. See SURREY SIX / Page 12

EVAN SEAL / THE LEADER

Eileen Mohan sits on a couch in her suite at the Balmoral Tower in North Surrey – the same building where her son Christopher Mohan was killed in October 2007.

Eileen Mohan – the mother of murder victim Chris Mohan – steels herself for the start of the Surrey Six trial See stories, page 3

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