Excerpts below are from one of the better articles published, assuming the police intelligence is accurate and Peter Edwards's OMG sources were knowledgeable -- he wrote a book about the 2006 massacre of the Bandidos in Shedden, Ontario. Incidentally, other articles have now confirmed that the second victim who survived was not targeted -- he was shot accidentally.
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http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/articl...for-cafe-killerLittle Italy shooting: Search goes on for café killerToronto StarPeter Edwards and Jayme Poisson, Staff Reporters
Published On Wed Jun 20 2012
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The victim, John Raposo, 35, had a history of run-ins with the law and flirted with the idea of joining a downtown crew of the Loners Motorcycle Club in the 1990s, but never followed through with it.
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The second victim suffered non-life-threatening injuries, police say. His name has not been released by police.
Raposo also had numerous scrapes with the law, although well-placed sources said he wasn’t a member of the Mafia or an outlaw biker club.
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Three GTA men connected to outlaw bike clubs say that Raposo should not be confused with Luis Manny (Chopper) Raposo, a former member of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club who lived in the same neighbourhood. Luis Raposo was murdered in April 2006, alongside seven other men connected to the Bandidos Motorcycle Club.
Luis Raposo had no brothers or relatives in the club and John Raposo was never a full member of the Loners or Bandidos, a former Bandido said.
“The only Raposo I knew was Chopper, and he obviously is not with us any longer,” said another former biker acquaintance of Luis Manny Raposo.
John Raposo briefly entertained the thought of joining the club when he was in his late teens, when he was friends with a longtime Loner known as “Joe the Meatman,” who worked as a butcher. “He was one of his (Joe the Meatman’s) guys downtown,” a former Loner said.
Only a few old-timers in the club still recall John Raposo, the former Loner said.
“He never ended up joining the club,” the former Loner said. “There was no animosity towards him.”
A GTA police officer who specializes in organized crime said John Raposo also wasn’t considered a member of what police call “traditional organized crime” or TOC.
“There’s nothing TOC that I have on him,” the Mafia specialist said....
