Mother of Surrey Six shooting victim speaks at Vancouver sentencing hearing

VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) — The mother of Surrey Six victim Christopher Mohan finally spoke directly to the man she holds responsible for that mass shooting almost 13 years ago.

Eileen Mohan spoke outside the Vancouver Law Courts after taking part in the sentencing hearing of Jamie Bacon, the former leader of the Red Scorpions gang.

.@eileen_mohan says Jamie Bacon gets to return to his mother, but her son does not.
That’s part of the victim impact statement she delivered at the #Vancouver sentence hearing of the man she holds responsible for the #SurreySix massacre in 2017. #crime @NEWS1130

— Marcella Bernardo (@Bernardo1130) August 29, 2020

“Since he was taken, Christopher didn’t belong to me anymore,” she says. “Christopher became legally the son of the courts and laws of our country.”

Mohan says she had been preparing her statement to Bacon for a long time.

“I wanted to give him my life story of how I reached this point,” she says, adding she wanted him to hear every detail.

“I wanted the judge to understand that all these years, the courts have given Jamie Bacon so much time and so much presence. At the same time, my son had a presence too when he was alive,” Mohan says. “It’s not that he’s dead that he doesn’t matter. I wanted her to understand that Christopher still matters and Christopher still lives in spirit with us.”

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The Surrey Six case involves the execution-style killings of an alleged drug trafficker and three associates, along with bystanders Ed Schellenberg and Christopher Mohan at a Surrey apartment tower in 2007.

A joint submission by the Crown and Defence is recommending 18 years, but because Bacon has been imprisoned since his arrest in 2009, he may only serve a few more years in prison.

The judge is expected to deliver the sentence on Sept. 11.

-With files from Monika Gul, Hana Mae Nassar, and the Canadian Press