A Metro Vancouver hospital was locked down overnight, possibly in response to heightened anxiety about a B.C. gang turf war.
RCMP Inspector Bryon Massie says the lockdown at Vancouver General Hospital began at about midnight Sunday and remained in effect early Monday morning.
He says a patient with a known gang affiliation was being treated there and the lockdown was to prevent any friends with gang history from gathering at VGH.
Massie described the patient as "not a gang player" and he could not say if that person was connected to Sunday's targeted shooting in Kelowna that killed one man and wounded five other people.
Massie says it would not be appropriate to comment on the Kelowna investigation that began Sunday afternoon when a masked gunman sprayed a Porsche SUV with bullets outside an upscale Kelowna hotel.
Police have yet to confirm reports that the victim of the shooting is Jonathan Bacon, the eldest of three brothers who investigators believe control the Red Scorpions, an Abbotsford-based gang at the centre of a bloody gang war in B.C. that has claimed dozens of lives since 2008.
