A man shot to death in Langley was the suspect in a vicious attack against a Mission couple two weeks earlier.
An Edmonton man shot to death in Langley Sept. 21 was a suspect in a vicious random baseball bat attack against a young couple in Mission two weeks earlier.
Suspected gunman Johnathan Hebrada-Walters, 38, was killed at about 6 p.m. Saturday near 196th Street and 83rd Avenue in Langley. Brothers Keepers gangster Barinder (Shrek) Dhaliwal was wounded but is expected to recover.
The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team said Hebrada-Walters was from Edmonton and known to police, but did not provide additional details of his history.
Mission RCMP confirmed Friday that Hebrada-Walters is the suspect in a photo released after the Sept. 8 bat attack. And a relative of one of the victims in the attack posted on Facebook this week that the man in the photo is now “deceased.”
Mission RCMP Cpl. Harrison Mohr also said charges have now been approved against Hebrada-Walters’ companion during the road rage incident.
“Amber Jenelle Toews, 35, also from Edmonton, has been charged with assault with a weapon, assault causing bodily harm, and mischief under $5,000,” he said. “A Canada-wide arrest warrant has been issued for her, and Mission RCMP are working with our law enforcement partners in Alberta to try to locate and arrest Amber.”
He said the random attack is not believed to have any connection to the fatal shooting, which IHIT has linked to the B.C. gang conflict.
The earlier Mission news release said that the two suspects were in a black Malibu with Alberta plates when the young couple was beaten near Lougheed Highway and the Cedar Valley Connector about 10 a.m. The couple had been in a Tim Hortons drive-thru when they honked at the suspects’ black Chevrolet Malibu in front of them for not moving. The Malibu then followed the victims for about two kilometres before the assault occurred.
“This appears to have been an extreme case of road rage,” Mohr said at the time.
Hebrada-Walters was recently released from Drumheller Institution where there have been a series of violent assaults on Brothers Keepers gangsters.
Postmedia obtained a video of one of the assaults by two United Nations gang members and asked the Correctional Service Canada for comment on Sept. 13.
CSC Regional Communications Manager Jeff Campbell said this week said that the agency is still working to provide a response on whether or not there is an on-going investigation into the recorded assault, “but I do not have an ETA on your answer.”
Sources said Hebrada-Walters was involved in the drug subculture while in prison. He had a series of trafficking and firearms convictions in Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
In 2018, he was sentenced to six years for firearms charges stemming from an incident four years earlier in Manitoba.
He was the passenger in a vehicle when it was stopped by Winnipeg police during a period of “heightened concern over gang-related violence, including a high-profile shooting,” a court ruling in the case said.
Police saw a Glock handgun beside him in the back seat of the vehicle, leading to charges and his eventual conviction for possession of a loaded restricted firearm, unauthorized possession of a firearm while being an occupant of a motor vehicle, and possessing a firearm with the serial number removed.
He was also convicted in Saskatchewan in 2012 of possession of cocaine near Saskatoon two years earlier. Again Hebrada-Walters was a passenger in a rental vehicle that was pulled over by police after the occupants were yelling at two women who were trying to get away from them.
Cocaine were later found in his underwear during a search after his arrest.
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