Vancouver’s New Justice System
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The man killed in the shooting this week was a target of a previous hit.
Hung Van Bui was found in the driver’s seat of a 2002 silver Altima at about 10:30 p.m in the 600-block of East 65th Avenue.
The 27-year-old died of multiple gunshot wounds.
He’s had a long violent history in Alberta and BC. He left behind a trail of death and violence in British Columbia and Alberta going back almost a decade.
His nickname was Scarface.
He survived the deadly Fortune Happiness shooting last August, it was the second time in his young life he’d cheated death. The Aug. 9 shooting where two masked gunmen opened fire on a table of nine people, killing two people and injuring six, including Bui - remains unsolved.
He was riding in a car in Edmonton nine years ago when members of a rival drug gang opened fire, killing one of Bui’s friends. He escaped unscathed.
On Monday night, Bui’s luck ran out.
Maybe for good reason…
In 1999 a 35-year-old UPS courier, Andrew Allan, was stabbed in an Edmonton parking lot. UPS offered $50,000 cash reward. The police couldn’t find the killer.
Two months later Hung was arrested in Edmonton when an assassin fired on the car he was in, killing the driver. Bui fled the scene but Police caught up. They charged him with First Degree Murder of Andrew Allan.
Why had he killed the UPS Courier? Mr. Allan had offended him in traffic. Hung Van Bui chased, cornered and stabbed Allan.
Without an eye-witness the Crown dropped the murder charge.
That brings the total of hits to 12 in Vancouver - more than one a month.
Bui finally faced Vancouver gang justice.
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