B.C. men gunned down poolside at Mexican condo[Puerto Vallarta]

Two B.C. men living in Mexico have been gunned down poolside in the resort town of Puerto Vallarta.

Gordon Douglas Kendall and Jeffrey Ronald Ivans were executed at dawn Sunday, according to news reports, outside the condo where they were staying in the seaside city.

Graphic photos of the two lying in pools of blood beside a vehicle and a gun were displayed in the online publication Noticias Puerto Vallarta.

Ivans, who had a drug conviction in Kamloops in 2002, is wearing a blood-streaked "Hockey Hall of Fame" T-shirt. Kendall is shirtless and wearing a pair of khaki shorts.

Friends of the former Kamloops residents confirmed Sunday they had been called with the news of the slayings.

They said Ivans, 37, and Kendall, who has a Facebook page with friends from B.C. and Mexico, had moved to Mexico about a year ago.

Mexican news reports said the two were shot to death outside the Glory Sun condo they were renting.

Police found one of the vehicles on the scene — a Ford F350 Super Duty truck — had Canadian plates and was registered to Kendall.

Witnesses reportedly told police several gunmen were involved in the hit and that one of the Canadians is believed to have exchanged fire with the killers.

Ivans was inside the condo when the shooting started and came out to see what was going on, "but his executioner overtook him and delivered several bullet holes in the skull," the Puerto Vallarta News reported.

The report said that while Kendall and Ivans lay wounded, one of the gunmen walked over and shot each of them "for the second time."

The news report said witnesses believed the two Canadians knew the men who shot them.

Several other B.C. residents — most with links to gangs here — have been shot in Mexico over the last 14 months.

In July 2008, Eliott (Taco) Castaneda, an Abbotsford member of the United Nations gang, was shot to death in Guadalajara along with fellow UN gangster Lou Ahmet, a former B.C. resident.

And on Dec. 30, 2008, two Vancouver men described by local police as no strangers to them, were shot in a Cabo San Lucas strip club.

Brendhan Stowe, 28, was shot in the leg. Nguyen Minh Trung Do, 26, was critically wounded with a shot to his neck and is still receiving medical treatment in B.C.

According to data found in one of the vehicles they used, the deceased had registered the names of Douglas Gordon and Ivana Kendall Ronald Jeffrey, a Canadian citizen, as a license and credential found inside the Ford F350 Super Duty.

By the Editor

According to data from the delegation of the Attorney General of the State, the two men executed at dawn on Sunday 27 September 2009, are a Canadian, were staying at the condo “Glory Sun”, located on the Avenue “ David Alfaro Siqueiros “number 501, on Plaza Las Glorias, and answered to the name of Douglas Gordon Ivanda Ronald Kendall and Jeffrey.

This, after achieving locate documents that certify them with the names referenced in the truck dark gray, late-model, Ford F350 Super Duty, DA 6430 Canadian plates, owned by the decedent, Douglas Gordon Kendall.

The executed were shot .40-caliber and 9 mm.

In the scene where Douglas Kendall was, I found ten 9-mm casings gravel and five of size 40. Inside, where was the body of Ronald Jeffrey, found 5 of 9 millimeters.

Witnesses confirmed that a young man wearing a pink colored shirt and denim shorts, it was Douglas who shot first and looked for Ronald to also run.

And they were both outside the building after checking that their vehicles had their tires struck the front left side. For it happened that a patrol observed, however retreated to note that both were complaining of the problem ... when the officers were immediately a man with such attributes approached to run for Douglas.

Seeing what happened, Ronald went to the pool area, but his executor overtook him and delivered several bullet holes in the skull, hence presumably tried to defend himself with the pistol cover, a 25-gauge Super same I had 6 cartridges useful, but only stayed at his side.

After the execution, two other men approached, one of them went to where the body was pulled from Douglas to finish it off with a coup de grace. Similarly reached the remains of Ronald who were shot for the second time with the insignia of reckoning, they suspect the authorities.

Outside of these facilities were waiting for four other men who went to an unknown destination. Witnesses said armed group traveling in two vehicles, a van and a Nissan Urban black compact car, without much data to achieve your location.

Once these events occurred, the police arrived municipal, state and experts from the Jalisco Institute of Forensic Sciences, who took care of removing the bodies to carry them Semefo facilities.

After and 02:30 hours, the prosecutor, along with forensic experts proceeded to open the truck of Douglas, where they found a license on behalf of the above, like Ronald. So did the color white Hummer, which was rented.

For now, the MP began with the lifting of the ministerial act to carry out an investigation of the facts, the remains of both men are in the Semefo and so far not achieved the location of any of the gunmen.

OFFICIAL VERSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY:
“Subjects unknown riddle two foreigners”

As of 00:27:45 hours this Sunday, September 27, 2009, to Base CARE received an anonymous call reporting that David Alfaro Siqueiros street behind the store Coppel, heard several shots fired from a firearm and that There are 02 people injured.

To investigate that place presented themselves to the elements of the PV-130 unit under the command of Second Officer Nieves Andres Martinez, who needs the support of the ambulance to provide medical care to these persons since both have several bullet holes, these people were inside the building called “Gloriasol”, located on Boulevard Francisco Medina Ascencio and Calle David Alfaro Siqueiros number 501en Hotel Zone Las Glorias, next to the store parking lot Coppel.

In the act of support units arrived PV-83, PV-131 PV-118 PV-105 and all under the command of General Felipe Mejia Bracamontes Supervisor and the Deputy Force Cmdr. Jorge Enrique Garcia Esqueda, who implemented a special operation to search and locate the perpetrators, as the gunmen apparently fled in two vehicles, a van and a Nissan Urban black compact car, according to reports from witnesses, hence increased surveillance was implemented in the entry and exit of the city.

Then arrival at that place Unit B-28 by the Fireman’s Ambulance Carlos Robles and Mexican Red Cross with JAL-364 paramedic Paulina Inda, who state that these people no longer have their vital signs. Subsequently made an appearance on Regional subdelegado PGJE Juan Carlos Zaragoza, and the prosecutor Villalvazo Hector Medina, similarly SEMEFO staff in charge of the expert Carmen Ramirez Cano, who reported that the now deceased, apparently responded to the name DOUGLAS GORDON QUENDAL about 40 years old, who wears shorts in navy blue and the other named Jeffry RONALD WYNF approximately 35 years old, both are of Canadian nationality.

The gravel area is located 5 caliber casings of 40 mm and 15 gravel 9mm casings. Note that the side of the second of the above type was found SQUADRON SILVER PISTOL CALIBER 25., Is the information provided by prosecutors, and so far no detainees.

On the performance of the subjects, it emerged that apparently knew their killers, any time one of them left the premises of the building where they were, apparently enjoying the pool. When he left the first subject, was shot at close range, being pulled to the side of a pickup truck, oxford gray, late-model, Ford F350 Super Duty type, DA 6430 Canadian plates, owned by the deceased.

This man was rugged, dark complexion, height approximately 1.75, in shorts and no shirt.

Once launched the first man to let him go against his companion who was outside the pool, and equally unceremoniously fired. The deceased wore a beige shorts, no shirt, sandals and measured approximately 1.90, was young, slim, fair complexion and was lying on the stairs beside her body color was a gun, Raven brand size 25, also carrying a backpack, which is unknown until the contents.

Outside of that building, the vehicles are owned by the deceased, a Hummer, white plates JFU 7338 the State of Jalisco, a black color Mercedes Benz polarized plates JDJ 4714 the State of Jalisco, along with the Super Duty, had their tires punctured the left front.

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