Video at trial reveals Bacon murder aftermath
The video of the crime scene shows the carnage.
A white Porsche Cayenne with bullet holes through every door and window, its interior soaked in the blood of its occupants.
Shell casings from three different firearms strewn across the beautiful courtyard of the Delta Grand Hotel, with lovely flowers and a fountain nearby.
Small pieces of the Porsche on the ground from a collision with the SUV driven by the killers.
The police video was played in B.C. Supreme Court on Wednesday at the trial of three men charged with killing gangster Jonathan Bacon on Aug. 14, 2011.
Bacon, a Red Scorpion leader, was in the front passenger seat of the Porsche when the shooting began. He died minutes later on the ground beside the SUV.
Hells Angel Larry Amero was driving and was seriously injured in the shooting.
Leah Hadden-Watts, sitting in the back middle seat, was paralyzed from a bullet through her neck. Lyndsey Black, sitting in the right rear seat, was shot through both legs.
Only Independent Soldier gangster James Riach, who was sitting behind Amero, was uninjured, surprising given the number of bullet holes visible through his door.
There was no reaction from accused killers Jujhar Khun-Khun, Jason McBride and Michael Jones as they watched the videos on screens in front of them.
Retired Mountie Cora Malewski, then an RCMP forensic identification specialist, told Justice Allan Betton that she took the video shortly after the fatal shooting at the Delta Grand.
“I had heard over the radio that there was a shooting and I started making my way toward the Grand,” Malewski testified.
She said she was the only forensic officer on duty that Sunday afternoon.
“Once I attended to that scene, I contacted others and got them involved as well,” she said. “That same day, I also contacted experts from the firearms section in Vancouver and requested that they attend.”
The victims had already been taken away when she arrived 30 minutes after the shooting. The crime scene was taped off.
The watch commander on scene briefed her about what happened to the Porsche, which had come to a stop against the wall of a hair salon in the hotel complex.
“I saw a few traffic cones throughout the courtyard and what was explained to me was that there was a second vehicle involved which had cut this Porsche Cayenne off,” Malewski said.
“Two occupants of that vehicle were firing what was believed to be automatic or semi-automatic rifles at the Cayenne.”
She walked the perimeter of the crime scene and began taking video footage just before 5 p.m. that day.
She also examined some of the dozens of shell casings littering the area.
“There were two different colours of rifle shell casings, so they were longer in nature. I know they came from a rifle and not a handgun,” she told Betton. “And there were also short brass shell casings, which had 9mm markings on them, so I knew that came from a handgun.”
The Crown said in its opening statement that two Norinco assault rifles and a 9mm Glock were later found in some bushes less than three kilometres from the crime scene.
Malewski said the Porsche was riddled with bullet holes.
“There were holes on all four sides of the vehicle — through the doors, through the body of the Porsche,” she testified.
She said the hatch was open when she arrived, revealing the luggage of the vehicle’s passengers.
The trial continues.