Accused Bacon killer targeted twice in hits

Kelowna court hears Jujhar Khun-Khun lament loss of his friends in calls made after 2 attempts on his life

One of the men accused of killing gangster Jonathan Bacon drove himself to hospital after being shot in what police say was a revenge hit, a court in Kelowna heard Tuesday.

Jujhar Khun-Khun survived the Jan. 15, 2013, attack in Surrey that killed his best friend, Manny Hairan.

“I can’t believe they took my Manny,” Khun-Khun said in a telephone call to Hairan’s widow, Almyra Singh, that was intercepted by police.

Khun-Khun described how he told Hairan after the 2 a.m. shooting near the Patullo Bridge: “Get up. You’re not supposed to die.”

Khun-Khun was shot several times in the attack, which was the second attempt on his life. He was shot 10 times in September 2011. Both hits were said by police to be revenge for Khun-Khun’s role in the killing of Bacon outside Kelowna’s Delta Grand hotel in August 2011.

After being shot during the second attempt on his life, Khun-Khun ran from the scene, got in a vehicle and drove at speeds of up to 220 km/h toward a hospital, swerving through traffic.

At the emergency department, Khun-Khun said, he yelled out “I’m shot!” and medical staff came running toward him.

In the conversation, Khun-Khun said he had several more surgeries to undergo and he seemed to lament his gang lifestyle, saying at different points: “Everybody is dead, you know?” and “What a f . . . ing life.”

Khun-Khun is charged, along with Jason McBride and Michael Jones, with the first-degree murder of Bacon and the attempted murder of four other people who were wounded during the brazen daylight attack on a busy Sunday afternoon in downtown Kelowna.

The Crown says Bacon’s murder was orchestrated by Sukh Dhak, a Lower Mainland gangster who believed Bacon was involved in the killing of his brother, Gurmit, in 2010. Dhak was murdered in November 2012.

In another telephone call that was intercepted by police, also played in court on Tuesday, McBride is talking after Hairan’s killing with an unidentified person who was then in a correctional facility.

The unidentified person says he feels “real bad” for what happened to Hairan.

To which McBride responds: “Shit happens. What the hell was he was doing out there at two in the morning?”

McBride also cautions the unidentified man not to speak too freely during the call: “Things like that don’t need to be said on phones like this.”

The Crown says Hairan was with Bacon’s accused killers in Kelowna and helped with surveillance at the Grand hotel in the hours before Bacon was murdered.

The trial continues.