BURNABY (NEWS1130) – Two people have been killed in a shooting in Burnaby today.

There was a heavy police presence near Lougheed and Madison in Burnaby. News1130 has learned one of the men shot today was Sukh Dhak.

Dhak’s death comes two years after his brother, Gurmit Dhak, was gunned down in a parking lot at Metrotown in October 2010, in a murder that is believed to have triggered a number of retaliatory attacks.

Last year, the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit issued a warning that anyone associated with Dhak is at-risk.
    
Most recently, BC Supreme Court has currently been hearing a case against Sukh Dhak.
    
Just last month, Crown had outlined its case against him, calling Dhak the mastermind behind a large scale drug lab.

The other man shot is believed to be his body guard.

IHIT confirms that one of the males is Indo-Canadian and the second male is Caucasian.  

“This callous shooting occurred in a very public location which could have injured or taken the lives of many innocent people.  The loss of two young lives is a terrible tragedy which will scar the lives of their families and friends forever.  Life should not be so easily thrown away,” says Sgt. Jennifer Pound.

News1130′s Anita Bathe says she could see one body laying in the front doorway to the hotel, and the other  further into the lobby of the Executive Hotel.

The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team is handling the case, and will be on scene collecting evidence throughout the evening.

Don lives nearby and heard some sort of commotion at about 11:45 a.m. “It sounded like a whole bunch of wood falling down from a building… I thought it was like a scaffolding coming down or something.”

Should we be bracing for more shootings?

We should be concerned, but not to the point where you can’t live your daily life says SFU Criminologist Rob Gordon.
    
He says we will see more gun violence. “I don’t think that it’s likely that this will spill out into more than simply a retaliatory shooting, judging by the way things are going may take a while to appear.”

He says today’s hit is likely a response to the shootings from a few months ago, so it may be months before we see another round of gunfire.
        
“In the past the responses have been very swift, what seems to be happening is that they’re taking their time, these guys have long memories and obviously are waiting for the right moment before they strike.”