Shootout victim reportedly stepson of slain gangster

METRO VANCOUVER —A young man critically wounded in a Surrey shooting Friday afternoon is the stepson of murdered gangster Sandip Duhre, The Vancouver Sun has learned.

The young Surrey man and his friend were wounded during a shoot-out between two vehicles in the 5800-block of 126th Street at around 2:45 p.m., Surrey RCMP Sgt. Drew Grainger said. The Duhre relative was struck in the chest and had a punctured lung.

“He is critical, but expected to survive this injury,” Grainger said. The other man had “a grazing injury.”

While Grainger was not releasing the identity of the victims — who are 21 and 19 — The Sun confirmed through sources the link to Duhre, the notorious gangster shot to death in the lobby of the Sheraton Wall Centre in January 2012.

Rival gangster Rabih (Robby) Alkhalil has been charged in the Duhre murder and remains in custody in Greece where he was arrested earlier this year.

Alkhalil is expected to be sent to Ontario to face another first-degree murder charge. He is also charged in Quebec in a cocaine conspiracy in which B.C. Hells Angel Larry Amero is a coaccused.

Grainger said Friday’s victims were in one of two vehicles shooting at each other — a gold-coloured sedan like a Toyota Corolla and a dark-coloured Infiniti sports car.

“It looks like they were involved in the shooting and made their way to hospital in another vehicle,” Grainger said.

Police determined the third vehicle was a darkcoloured mini-van.

Grainger said the shooting took place in a busy neighbourhood where passersby could have gotten caught in the crossfire.

Some fear the shooting is a sign a violent conflict is continuing between the Duhre-Dhak group and the Wolf-Pack alliance of Red Scorpions, Independent Soldiers and Hells Angels.