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Police seek help in identifyin­g suspects in Grewal murder

- KIM BOLAN kbolan@postmedia.com twitter.com/kbolan

Homicide investigat­ors have released surveillan­ce photos of two men believed to be involved in the murder last December of Brothers Keepers gang boss Gavinder Grewal.

Cpl. Frank Jang, of the Integrated Homicide Investigat­ion Team, said IHIT has “gathered significan­t evidence and is looking to identify individual­s involved in the murder.”

“Surveillan­ce footage has identified two vehicles that investigat­ors believe are associated to the murder of Mr. Grewal,” Jang said.

Grewal was found dead in his apartment on Dec. 23, 2017 “with injuries consistent with homicide.” He was killed in a penthouse suite of a North Vancouver apartment where he had been living since getting bail on a manslaught­er charged in September 2017.

Grewal sub-leased his suite from former Vancouver realtor Omid Mashinchi, who is facing money-laundering charges in Boston.

Jang said Grewal “was known to police and associated to gang activity.”

In fact, Grewal’s the Brothers Keepers had a major internal conflict with former associates turning on each other. “Investigat­ors believe Mr. Grewal’s murder was targeted and linked to other gang violence in the Lower Mainland,” Jang said.

The suspects are described as South Asian, one between 20 to 25 years old wearing a black jacket and a white shirt. The second is described as slightly older, between 25 and 30, with a beard and wearing a toque and a dark jacket.

The two men were in the Nissan Titan, Jang said.

“We are asking the public’s help in identifyin­g these two males or anyone associated to the Lexus RX350 or the Nissan Titan,” he said. “There are people who have informatio­n about what happened to Mr. Grewal. We urge anyone with informatio­n to please come forward and speak with IHIT so that we can hold those responsibl­e to account.”

Anyone with informatio­n is asked contact IHIT at 1-877-551- 4448 or ihitinfo@rcmp-grc.gc.ca.

 ??  ?? Homicide investigat­ors released these surveillan­ce photos last December of two vehicles and two suspects that are ‘associated’ to the Dec. 23, 2017 murder of Gavinder Grewal in North Vancouver.
Homicide investigat­ors released these surveillan­ce photos last December of two vehicles and two suspects that are ‘associated’ to the Dec. 23, 2017 murder of Gavinder Grewal in North Vancouver.

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