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   From: gregcarrsober@gmail.com   
      
   METRO VANCOUVER - Police have confirmed that the man killed in an attack   
   at an Abbotsford auto mall was Matthew Gordon Campbell, 31.   
      
   Campbell was known to be the leader of the Red Scorpion gang.   
      
   In a news release from the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team,   
   Sergeant Adam MacIntosh said: “The male appeared to have suffered stab   
   injuries and later died in hospital.”   
      
   Campbell was the victim of the attack just before 3:45 p.m. in the   
   30100-block of Automall Drive.   
      
   Campbell was taken to hospital, where he died of his injuries.   
      
   "Mr. Campbell is known to police. He has gang affiliation,'' MacIntosh   
   said in an interview. "Indications at this point in the investigation   
   suggest this was not a random incident.''   
      
   MacIntosh said Campbell's death has not been linked to any other   
   incidents but the investigation team is working with the province's   
   combined anti-gang unit, the provincial intelligence centre and   
   Abbotsford Police.   
      
   "At this time, it appears to be an isolated incident,'' he said.   
      
   The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team and the Abbotsford Police   
   Department are searching for a suspect.   
      
   Abbotsford Police Const. Ian MacDonald said the victim entered one of   
   the businesses “with a severe injury to his neck.”   
      
   “Medical resources were deployed to assist the man and APD members began   
   investigating and gathering evidence,” MacDonald said.   
      
   Campbell is believed to have taken over the leadership of the Red   
   Scorpion gang after the arrest or murders of several key gang members in   
   recent years, including brothers Jonathan, Jarrod and Jamie Bacon.   
      
   Campbell attended a funeral service for Jonathan in Langley in August   
   2011 after the eldest Bacon brother was shot to death in Kelowna.   
      
   Campbell, 31, was convicted of conspiring to traffic firearms in 2007   
   and received a two-year sentence. During the investigation, more than   
   100 guns were seized, including military assault rifles, sub machine   
   guns and fully automatic handguns.   
      
   Campbell, who grew up in Abbotsford, was extremely close to the Bacon   
   brothers.   
      
   He travelled with other Red Scorpions gangsters and their girlfriends to   
   Mexico in December 2007, just weeks after the Surrey Six slayings. Also   
   on the trip were Jamie Bacon, Cody Haevischer, and a man who can be   
   identified only as Person X due to a court-ordered ban, all of whom were   
   later charged in the high-profile murder case.   
      
   Person X has since pleaded guilty. Haevischer is currently on trial.   
      
   And Bacon is due to be tried separately at a later date.   
      
   Also on the Mexico trip were Jon Bacon and the late Kevin LeClair, who   
   died in a hail of bullets in February 2009.   
      
   According to evidence at the Surrey Six trial, the Red Scorpion gang was   
   formed in 2005 by several teens inside a youth detention centre.   
      
   One of the founders, Michael Le, pleaded guilty in December to   
   conspiring to kill one of the Surrey Six victims. The Red Scorpions went   
   on to run drug lines all over the Lower Mainland, with the Bacon   
   brothers and their allies joining the gang in 2007.   
      
   A bloody gang war involving the Red Scorpions and their rivals from the   
   United Nations and other groups has left dozens of people dead.   
      
   kbolan@vancouversun.com   
      
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