Cpl. Frank Jang of the Integrated Homicide Investigation
Team says the body of 43-year-old Chad Wilson was found Sunday morning in Maple
Ridge, where he was living.
Jang says Wilson was a member of the Hells Angels and
describes the killing of a member of the biker-club as “unsettling news.”
Wilson had a previous criminal conviction in the United
States stemming from a shooting in South Dakota in 2006 that injured five
affiliate members of a rival motorcycle club and Jang says officers are looking
into his past.
Police are also appealing to Wilson’s friends in the Hells
Angels to come forward.
Jang said Tuesday that members of the Hells Angels may have
“intimate knowledge” of what happened and he urged them to speak to officers,
regardless of their current involvement in criminal activity.
The cause of Wilson’s death has not been released but Jang says the homicide team is working with Ridge Meadows RCMP, forensic specialists, the BC Coroners Service and gang enforcement units from across Metro Vancouver.
Wilson’s body was found near the banks of the Fraser River
under the Golden Ears Bridge.
Five people were hurt in an exchange of gunfire. Wilson told his trial that he fired in self-defence after the Outlaws started shooting.
Following his acquittal, Wilson was subsequently convicted
by the same South Dakota court of being a non-immigrant alien in possession of
a firearm and sentenced to four years in prison.
SOURCE: The Province