anatomy of a gang war
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THE WEB OF CALGARY’S
GANG WAR
W
FOB
25 dead
n Linked by family:
n Linked by events or known association:
n Part of the
original group
associated with
Forest Lawn High
School in the late
1990s:
1: FIRST HOMICIDE Vuthy Kong
Killed
Feb. 17,
2002
get
her
Killed July
5, 2008
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20
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20
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n
In custody
awaiting trial
on firearms
charges
Wounded in
Nov. 2008
Chinatown
shootout
Nicholas
Chan
Jailed for
trafficking heroin;
conviction
overturned
25
Matthew
John
Chubak
Killed Jan.
13, 2009
Jason
Viet
Quoc
Luong
Ch
micide
17
Killed Aug.
9, 2008
r in
Considered the
first unrelated
bystander killed
in the FOB-FK
conflcit
at scene of Miu ho
20
killed
together
ass
oci
Killed
Dec. 31,
2007
By the numbers:
CONVICTED OF
murder or
manslaughter
1
11. FOB member Son
12:
13: FK member Mark Kim,
23, shot in a downtown
laneway.
lon, 25, stabbed during a
fight at the Little Beijing
Café on Centre Street N.
Dhillon was not a gang
member, but police say his
death was related to the
feud.
15: FOB member Roger
Chin, 23, shot while driving
on Centre Street N.
16: Tuc Khanh (Tony) Tran,
36, shot while sitting in a
car on a Chinatown street.
Tran was a friend of slain FK
associate Vinh Le.
17: Kevin Anaya, 21, shot
Matthew
Kim
oustide a friend’s house in
Marlborough. Anaya wasn’t
a gang member, but may
have had friends on both
sides. Police consider his
death part of the conflict.
Wounded in
April 2005
shooting
18: Kenneth Wong, 25,
dies after a man strikes him
in the head with a toilet
tank lid during a fight at
Cowboys nightclub. Wong
knew people connected to
FOB.
21
19: FOB associate Jason
Tina Kong
Viet Quoc Luong, 20, shot
on the doorstep of his Chestermere home.
Kevin
Ses
20, 21: Tina Kong and
Killed
Oct. 26,
2008
22
23
killed
together
Killed
Jan. 1,
2009
Diep, 22, shot in a car at
Barlow Trail and 50th
Avenue S.E.
14: Gurjinder Singh Dhil-
Tuc Khanh
(Tony) Tran
Killed
July 26, 2008
10: FOB member Tan
iates
assoc
ate
s
16
24
Keni Su’a
mistaken for an FK member, shot as he rode in a car
with friends near Max Bell
Centre.
Brandon
Boychuk
Mark
Kim
Killed
Oct. 26,
2008
es
iat
c
o
ss
7: Sophorn Kim, 21, likely
Organized crime
figure Minh Tri Truong, 51,
shot outside his Hamptons
home. He is the uncle of
FOB members Roland and
Roger Chin.
Kevin
Anaya
Killed Sept.
16, 2008
a
2009
Timothy
Chan
Killed June
28, 2008
ge
the
08
atown 20
er in Chin
Killed Aug.
21, 2008
Michael
Roberto
sho
t to
Kenneth
Wong
ato
wn
14
Gurjinder
Dhillon
19
th
shot toge
18
Serving a
32-month
sentence for
drugs and
weapons
Peter Huynh, 19, a
cousin of FOB member Chuong (David) Tran, shot at a
Forest Lawn gas station.
Nguyen, 26, shot outside his Saddle Ridge home.
shot together 2007
associates
Roger
Chin
her
d toget
sho
t to
arreste
arrested
together
2005
es
at
ci
so
as
In custody
awaiting trial
on firearms
charges
arrested
together
2006
Roland
Chin
Appealing
deportation
order
Seriously
wounded in
2001, shot
again in 2007
13
15
Jackie
Tran
s
associate
In
custody
awaiting
trial after Nov.
2008 Chinatown shootout
associates
Serving a
three-year
sentence for
manslaughter
(not gangrelated)
Serving a
three-year
sentence for
2006 shooting at Pacific
Place
Hans
Eastgaard
Killed June
1, 2007
Drew
Martineau
Truong
Minh
Nguyen
at
Miu scene
hom of
icid
e
associates
“G”
Minh Tri
Truong
22, shot inside a 17th
Avenue S. W. nightclub.
Dat Le, 22, and Chuong
(David) Tran, 21, shot in
their vehicle at a northeast gas station.
at scene of
Miu homicide
Killed April
16, 2007
5: FK member John Pheng,
John
Pheng
Shaun
Roberts
associates
es
iat
Son
Nguyen
12
4:
8,9: FOB members
FOB
11
c
so
as
Killed
March 8,
2006
Ly, 19, shot while shovelling
snow outside his home on
Robert Road N.E.
6:
Killed June
4, 2005
FK
Tan Diep
3: FK member Linju (Billy)
Mathew Anderson, 19,
killed by an errant bullet
fired during a Chinatown
street fight. Anderson
wasn’t a gang member but
was with people connected
to FOB.
Killed
Feb. 26,
2005
Killed July
9, 2005
10
Killed
Dec. 29, 2002
5
Sophorn
Kim
Killed
May 20,
2005
Linju
(Billy) Ly
associates
Peter
Huynh
29, shot at the Auxiliary
after-hours club downtown.
homicide
killed
together
Chuong
(David)
Tran
An FOB
associate
suspected
to have
known
Anderson
and Wong
7
iates
Dat Le
Serving a
nine-year
sentence
for aggravated
assault,
drugs
6
9
Killed
Dec. 29, 2002
assoc
8
Vinh Le
2: FK associate Vinh Le,
3
at scene of Miu
Michael Oduneye wounds Jason Youn
in a drive-by shooting at Southcentre Mall on Dec. 23, 2002. The Chan
brothers, Timothy and Nicholas, were
with Youn but not hurt. Six days later,
in retaliatory attacks, the driver of the
car, Linju Ly, is shot dead. And Vinh Le
is shot and killed at a downtown afterhours club. The spate of shootings
escalates the gangs’ differences into
an all-out war.
4
Killed
July 9,
2005
Michael
Oduneye
POINT OF NO RETURN:
Severely
wounded in
Southcentre
shooting
Mathew
Anderson
2
shoots
Jason
Youn
is convicted of manslaughter for stabbing Adam Miu during a brawl outside
a downtown karaoke bar. Miu was not
a gang member. John Pheng (below)
pleads guilty to assault with a weapon
for hitting Miu’s brother over the head
with a baseball bat during the melee.
Vuthy
Kong
killed
Adam
Miu
Killed
Oct. 16, 2004
FOB Killers
David Hedley
Calgary Herald
Jason van Rassel
Calgary Herald
FK
KEY:
1
GRAPHIC
REPORTING
These are the connections between the
living (in white boxes) and dead (in black)
caught up in the gang war between the
FOB and FK, according to court files, police
sources and interviews.
By the numbers:
HOW TO READ THIS CHART:
Not everyone on this diagram is a gang
member.
This chart illustrates the connections
between the people killed, hurt or jailed as a
result of violence between FOB and FK.
There are two types of connections: 1.)
family and 2.) associates who are tied by
events (arrests, killings, attacks) or have
been linked together by court testimony.
Fresh Off the Boat/
Forever Our Brother
2002
25
1
hat started out as a dispute
among a small group of friends
has grown into a conflict that has
killed 25 people and spread fear
throughout an entire city.
Aaron
Bendle
Killed
Jan. 1,
2009
Sanjeev
Mann
led r
kil the
ge
to
Killed Jan.
1, 2009
Raji
Mann
Serving a
30-month
sentence for
drugs
Kevin Ses, both 21, shot
while sharing a table at the
Food In East restaurant in
Marlborough. Ses knew
slain FK member Mark Kim.
Kong was with her boyfriend and had no known
gang connections.
22, 23, 24: FK mem-
ber Sanjeev Mann, 22, his
friend Aaron Bendle, 22,
and bystander Keni Su’a,
43, killed by gunmen at
Bolsa Restaurant in Acadia.
25: Matthew Chubak,
20, who had ties with FOB,
killed in a drive-by shooting
in Dover.