Fatal knifing took place at home with gang ties
Police say the Burnaby residence where violence erupted was once owned by the NOMADS
A south Burnaby home that was the scene of a fatal knife fight and police shooting was once owned by members of the NOMADS, an elite wing of the Hells Angels.
Property records show the home at 6116 - 14th Ave. was owned by a company called 666 Holdings Limited with high ranking NOMADS Bob Green and Gino Zumpano listed as directors. According to court documents, 666 Holdings Limited was amalgamated into Grant Street Holdings Ltd. in 2005.
The Burnaby residence on 14th Avenue was once used as a clubhouse for a Hells Angels puppet club called the Regulators.
In August 2001, it was sold to Grant Warren Jones and Nellie Mary Jones, according to property records. The property is valued at $746,300.
A police source said the house has been known as a biker clubhouse.
“The house that it happened at used to be the club house for the East End (Hells Angels) puppet club, the Regulators,” said the source.
Last year a renovated building that had been a NOMADS clubhouse at 3910 Grant St., which was owned by Grant Street Holdings Ltd., was sold for $2.175 million.
According to Sgt. Lindsey Houghton of the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit, both Green and Zumpano are well known to gang squad investigators and they are also known to be active in a variety of legitimate businesses.
Houghton said the current owners of the Burnaby home, to which police were called at 5:50 a.m. Sunday, are not known to have any links to gangs and organized crime.
The dwelling was still closed off by police tape Monday as the Independent Investigations Office (IIO), the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team and the B.C. Coroners Service tried to sort out what happened.
According to IIO media liaison Kellie Kilpatrick, when RCMP arrived one man was dead as the result of a knife fight. But another man, who it is believed also had serious knife wounds, was still alive. He was eventually shot by RCMP and transported to hospital, where he later died.
A third man who was not injured was also taken into custody.
Kilpatrick said police are awaiting autopsy results and do not yet know the cause of death of the man who was both shot by police and injured with a knife.
Area resident Francine Lamirande said she believes the home where the fight took place is a rooming house with people coming and going at all times of the night. “One of the guys was always drunk or on pills,” she said of the residents.
Paul Healey, who runs Hannah Brook Farms close to the crime scene, said he has had two recent arsons at his farm, and just months ago the body of a man was found in a ditch by his property.