Canada - High-profile biker slaying likely to trigger revenge after Hells Angel hurt

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KELOWNA, B.C. A settling of scores could be on the way between gxxgs in British Columbia after a notorious leader of the Red Scorpions was gunned down and a full-patch member of the Hells Angels was wounded in a very public daylight attack, police say.

The brazen slaying of 30-year-old Jonathan Bacon outside a glamorous waterfront hotel in Kelowna Sunday has the potential to ignite violent reprisals, RCMP Superintendent. Bill McKinnon acknowledged Monday, a day after the shooting that injured at least four others at the time.

“I think retaliation is something we’re very cautious of,” the officer told a news conference in the B.C. Interior city.

No arrests have yet been made in the high-profile slaying that police described as linked to organized crime.

One person in the Porsche SUV that was hit by the volley of gunfire fled the scene and hasn’t been located. Two women were also wounded.

Experts in the province’s long-running gang violence agreed Monday British Columbians should brace themselves for the possibility of ugly vengeance.

“Definitel y this won’t be taken lightly by the associates of the supposed victims here,” said Kash Heed, a former West Vancouver police chief who helped spearhead the province’s anti-gangs task force almost a decade ago.

“We’ve known the players for years ... The infamous Bacon gang, the Red Scorpions, the UN gang, the Hells Angels, the Independent Soldiers. You just got to put the pieces of the puzzle together. And you need to do it with intel-led policing.”

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