Kahno, 42, is in critical condition in the hospital.
"We received a call around 11:48 pm for a man lying on the ground near his car, at the corner of Pothier and Edinburgh streets, in the Vimont district. When the police arrived, the man was semi-conscious. The paramedics transported him to the hospital, but it was there that we realized that he had been shot, "said police officer Stephanie Beshara of Laval.
Ray Khano, in 2006 .... (Photo Alain Roberge, La Presse archives) - image 2.0 Enlarge Ray Khano, in 2006.
PHOTO ALAIN ROBERGE, LA PRESSE ARCHIVES
The spokeswoman did not want to confirm the identity of the victim saying "she was known to the police." But according to our sources, it is Ray Khano who would have been hit by at least one bullet in the head.
During the Coliseum investigation, Kahno found himself in the hot water when Mafia bosses based at the Consenza Social Club realized that 100 kg of cocaine had been unknowingly imported into a cargo of 218 kilograms seized at the time. Trudeau Airport in January 2005. Later, however, he denied his involvement in this case and indicated that he had no debt as a result of this case.
To add to their evidence against him during the Coliseum investigation, the investigators stole $ 3 million from family members and disguised the crime as a break and enter. This surreptitious operation angered Kahno, who suspected a family member and asked an accomplice to bring a weapon. The police, who were listening to Kahno, then found a pretext to intercept the two men near the RCMP headquarters in Westmount and arrest them.
Kahno was automatically released at two-thirds of his sentence in March 2015, but on at least two occasions his parole was suspended, including because he had ended up with an individual linked to organized crime and having a history of narcotics.
In front of the parole board, Kahno said he was working with the mafia, but was not part of it, and thought he would retire from the crime before being arrested in November 2006.
Two events in three days
This is the 2 th time in three days that an individual is suffering gunshot in Laval. On Monday morning at around 4:00 am, a 33-year-old man, Eliott Blanchard, was found injured near a vehicle in a municipal parking lot on Avenue du Havre-des-ÃŽles in the Chomedey neighborhood. He died in the hospital several hours later.
It is too early to determine if the two events are related. For the moment, there is no indication that this is the case, but investigators should still consider this possibility.
