Langley Cactus Club shooting victim was warned by police before his death
A 23-year-old with gang links gunned down in parking lot had been warned by police about threats to his life
By Kim Bolan
Last updated 2 days ago
A 23-year-old with gang links who was gunned down in Langley on Monday had been warned by police about threats to his life.
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Postmedia has learned that Jiwan Johal had received a so-called “duty to warn” in March, meaning police approached him with information that he was in danger.
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Sources said the warning came from Vancouver Police.
VPD Const. Megan Lui said Thursday that she wouldn’t “comment on if any duty to warn incidents happened during March 2026 as there could be an ongoing criminal investigation associated.”
But she said that, generally speaking, “from time to time, the VPD conducts what is called a ‘duty to warn‘ when we receive information regarding a threat to someone.”
Johal, who was aligned with the Brothers Keepers gang, was killed about 9:45 p.m. in the parking lot of Langley’s Cactus Club restaurant.
The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team’s Sgt. Freda Fong confirmed Thursday that the murder is believed to be linked to the Lower Mainland gang war, which has left dozens wounded and dead in recent years.
“Information to date leads IHIT investigators to believe this was a targeted incident related to the ongoing gang conflict,” Fong said.
Graphic video of Johal lying beside a vehicle was posted online by a distraught man who said he was just going to pick up food at the restaurant when the shooting happened. He showed bullet holes in his pickup truck before panning his phone to the body.
Fong said earlier that Langley RCMP received a report of a vehicle fire in the area of 232 Street and 75 Avenue just 20 minutes after the murder. A burnt sedan was recovered that investigators believe was used by the killer or killers.
“It is essential for investigators to establish a timeline of events leading up to the shooting,” Fong said. “A lot of work is underway as we continue an extended canvass for witnesses and video at both the shooting and arson scenes.”
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Johal was believed to have some knowledge about the suspects in a double slaying in May of two teenage boys in Surrey — one of a series of tit-for-tat murders related to hostilities between the Brothers Keepers and the United Nations gangs.
The teens had some affiliation with the UN gang, sources told Postmedia at the time.
The violence ramped up in January after the Surrey murder of high-profile Brothers Keepers gangster Naseem (Little Man) Mohammed. A suspected hitman for the gang, Mohammed had been living overseas, but returned to B.C. in November 2025. No one has been charged in his slaying, though Fong said earlier that investigators had identified “at least four individuals believed to be involved.
Sgt. Sarbjit Sangha, of the anti-gang Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit, said Thursday that the “gang dynamics in British Columbia are complex and continually evolving.”
Speaking generally, she said the agency “remains focused on identifying and disrupting individuals involved in organized crime and preventing further violence, regardless of their gang affiliation.”
“Both the Brothers Keepers and United Nations gangs have historically been involved in B.C.’s organized crime landscape,” she said. “While the structure and dynamics of these groups may change over time, individuals associated with organized crime continue to be a focus for law enforcement.”
She said CFSEU works closely with other police agencies across B.C. “to monitor gang-related activity, identify emerging threats and disrupt individuals and groups involved in organized crime.”
“We cannot speak to specific gang affiliations, relationships between groups or intelligence related to ongoing investigations,” she said. “However, preventing gang-related violence and protecting public safety remain key priorities.”
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