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▶ JUDGE TO DELIVER VERDICT IN SURREY SIX MASSACRE
Eileen Mohan’s son Christopher was an innocent bystander when he was killed in a mass murder in a Surrey apartment building in 2007. Today, Mohan will learn the fate of two men accused in his death and the murders of five others. EVAN SEAL
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Two men on trial for the execution-style mass murder of six men in Surrey seven years ago will find out their fates today (Thursday). Accused killers Cody Haevischer and Matt Johnston were expected to hear a decision from Justice Catherine Wedge in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver Thursday. (Check www.surreyleader.com for updates). Haevischer and Johnston were each charged with conspiracy to murder drug dealer Corey Lal and with the first-degree murder
of Lal and his brother Michael, Eddie Narong, Ryan Bartolomeo and innocent victims Ed Schellenberg and Christopher Mohan. Mohan, 22, lived in a Whalley apartment unit next to the one where the murders occurred on Oct. 19, 2007 and was headed out to a basketball game with friends when he was pulled into the death suite. Schellenberg was a gas fitter from Abbotsford who happened to be servicing fireplaces in the Balmoral Tower building that day. The other four young men had links to the drug trade and were visiting apartment
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#1505, where drugs were manufactured and packaged for sale on the street. The nine-month trial of Haevischer and Johnston began last September, calling 73 witnesses over 80 days of testimony. The Crown’s theory in the so-called Surrey Six case was that the Red Scorpions, prompted by notorious gangster Jamie Bacon, planned to kill rival drug dealer Lal over a turf dispute, but that the five other men were shot to death to eliminate any possible witnesses. A third accused, Mike Le, who co-found-
ed the Red Scorpion gang with Bacon, was initially on trial alongside Haevischer and Johnston. But in December, Le pleaded guilty to conspiracy to murder Corey Lal and was sentenced to spend a further three years in jail. (He spent about four-and-a-half years prior). He then testified against his former gang mates, telling the court both of the accused told him about the murders shortly after they took place in 2007. continued on page 13
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