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What will it take to trigger public outrage at BC's deadly gang warfare?

In Quebec, the killing of Daniel Desrochers, 11, was a turning point in the battle against biker gangs. Yet the death of Alfred Wong, 15, killed by crossfire in a Vancouver shootout, seems forgotten

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Geoff Meggs
Oct 07, 2025
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Samson Wong and his wife Chelly hold a photo of their son Alfred, killed in January 2018 by stray bullet fired in gang shootout on East Broadway in Vancouver. (VPD handout)

On August 1995, at the peak of Montreal’s biker war between the Hells Angels and the Rock Machine, a car bomb installed by the Hells Angels detonated in a Jeep parked across the stree…

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