During Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals between the Raptors and Cleveland Cavaliers in Toronto a few weeks back, a 34-year-old heckler was ejected from the Air Canada Centre at the discretion of NBA referees. And now, he’s dead.
Toronto Police received numerous 911 calls about a vehicle being shot up. Officers raced to the scene and found a white Range Rover parked in the laneway, about 100 metres north of Soudan Ave.
Inside the high-end SUV, they found the lifeless body of a man behind the wheel, slumped over onto the passenger’s side.
The driver’s side window was riddled with at least 14 bullet holes and the alley was littered with empty shell casings.
Police say two men wearing construction vests, one orange and one green, were seen fleeing in a black car. (via) …
Sukh Deo was well-known to police in British Columbia’s Lower Mainland and was a suspect in at least one continuing investigation here at the time of his murder.
His brother Harjit was convicted in a 2005 gangland kidnapping along with others in the Independent Soldiers gang. The kidnap victim had been held in the garage of the Deo family home in New Westminster, B.C. where police later arrested several suspects.
Sukh’s father Parminder is wanted on an Interpol warrant on drug smuggling charges laid in India. He earlier told the Vancouver Sun he was innocent and had hired a lawyer in the Punjab to fight the case. (via)
Crazy, man. One day you’re living in the lap of what sounds like totally illicitly funded luxury, sitting courtside, ardently supporting your Raptors as they eventually prevail in a crucial game versus LeBron & co., and the next you’re getting murdered in cold blood, in broad daylight, in the middle of downtown Toronto.
Is this karma? I don’t know, but that’s usually how life works. Not saying his NBA heckling is what did him in, but maybe it was, “indicative” per se of his fondness for getting into trouble.
Here’s footage of the late Deo being escorted out of the arena in Toronto on May 23…
Damn, man. Life of a gangster.
[via The Toronto Sun h/t The Source]