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SEVERAL North Vancouver men have been targets of violent crimes in the last eight months. North Vancouver RCMP are investigating the latest shooting.

Open warfare between young
Persian Pride associates
leads to death in NV cinema

By Anna Marie D'Angelo
News Reporter

THREE bullets tore through Mohammed
(Mo) Mirhadi as he sat watching 2 gang-
ster movie in a packed Lower Lonsdale
cinema Friday night.

His injuries were immediate and devastating. Mirhadi, 21,
was shot at close range by his assailant: once in the forehead and
once in the neck. He took a bullet to the abdomen. There were
defence injuries to one arm.

He lay choking on popcorn, vemit and blood. B.C.
Ambulance paramedics resuscitated the North Vancouver man
at the scene, but he died later in Lions Gate Hospital.

Mirhadi was sitting in the front row with his girlfriend at the
Esplanade 6 Cinemas at 200 West Esplanade when police say a
lone gunman opened fire.

The shooter took off out an exit door. “Phi
ple in the movie theatre at the time.

A witness sitting in the second row, just five seats away from
Mirhadi, said the killer entered the theatre about an hour into
the movie through an exit door that was left ajar. The witness,
who declined to be named, said the assailant was wearing a
bhick ski: mask and white painter’s disposable clothing. He
quickly walked up and shot Mirhadi in the head and while run-
ning away, shot twice mere. The shooter ran off in a zig-zag
crouched down fashion, as ng return fire, said the wit-
ness. Mirhadi did

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white guy” near the front
got up and left the evit door ajar, The witness remains pus died
as to why a theatre staff member cid net close the exit door.

Mirhadi’s death marks at least the fifth violent incid
eight months relating to a loose group of young
Vancouver men of [ranian descent. Some of the men are asso-
ciated with the Persian Pride gang from the Nerth Shore.

A little more than a month ago, the BMW convernble of
another young North Vancouver man linked by police to the
Persian Pode group was blown up on Roche Pot Dave in the

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MOHAMMED Mirhadi (left) was gunned down on

Friday while watching a movie in Lower Lonsdale. A
BMW convertible (2bove) was blown up in January.

Seymour area.

Police sources told the News the victim of the car bombing,
Was not cooperative. The car was destroyed in an early mornin,
explosion. No one was injured.

On Nov. 30, Persian Pride member Mani Rezaci, 20, was
shot in the back of the head as he sat in-a car in the 900- block

tation Street in Vancouver, Rezact was in the driver's seat
after leaving a rave party: at 0 am. A shooter casually
approached the car, opened the door and shot Rezaci with a
semi-automatic handgun.

The bullet exited near Rezaci’s ear, He was in acema and on
life support. He eventually became conscious.

While in hospital in Vancouver, Rezaci was charged with

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