NRI Hark Hans shot dead at Surrey's Eaglequest Golf Course

SURREY, B.C., Canada, March 27, 2008
Lachman Singh

NRI Hark Hans, 28, found dead in the parking lot of a golf course in Surrey, B.C and investigators are trying to determine whether has any links to organized crime or drug-dealing associations. He was found in a white Honda and was pronounced dead at the scene. The investigators are still building a victim profile.

RCMP Sgt. Roger Morrow said:

• RCMP's Integrated Homicide Investigation Team were called to the popular Eaglequest Golf Centre in the 7000 block of 152 Street Wednesday night
• The shooting took place at around 8:30 p.m. and the body was in a vehicle or even partially out
• The golf course driving range and restaurant were still open at the time of the incident, so they believe there may have been witnesses.

The police said this is the sixth so-called targeted shooting in Metro Vancouver in less than two weeks. The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team has investigated 18 homicides within its jurisdiction, which includes areas covered by all Metro Vancouver RCMP detachments and municipal police departments except Delta, Vancouver and West Vancouver. This compares to just eight killings investigated by IHIT by the same time last year. In Vancouver alone there have been eight slayings so far this year, five of them shootings, compared with four killings in the same period last year.

The police said:

• There could be many reasons why a killing like this takes place
• The victim is killed sitting in his car in a public place, apparently waiting for someone.

It then turns out that police know the individual and Hans was known to them. There is a connection between the victim and the drug trade or organized crime.