Pubdate: Tue, 13 Mar 2012
Source: Langley Advance (CN BC)
Copyright: 2012 Lower Mainland Publishing Group Inc.
Contact:  http://www.langleyadvance.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1248
Author: Matthew Claxton

MURDER VICTIM NO STRANGER TO CRIME

A man shot while attempting to rob a grow op had a history of similar
home invasions

A man shot to death in South Aldergrove on Friday night was apparently
part of a group trying to break into and rob a marijuana grow operation.

Korey Tyler Kelly, 25, was shot and killed near 16th Avenue and 272nd
Street, said Sgt. Jennifer Pound, the spokesperson for the Integrated
Homicide Investigation Team, or IHIT.

The RCMP were called at about 9: 30 p.m., and were flagged down near
24th Avenue by two men. They had the badly injured Kelly with them.

Kelly was unresponsive at the scene and was taken to hospital by
paramedics, where he was pronounced dead.

Pound said that the shooting does not appear to be
gang-related.

It appears that Kelly and a group of men, including at least the two
who flagged down the police, firefighters, and ambulances that
responded, were trying to rip off a grow op.

"We believe he was at the property attempting to break into it," said
Pound.

Police have not yet arrested anyone for the murder.

"There have been no arrests made to date," Pound said.

However, police have identified some persons of interest in the case,
and have interviewed several people, including the two men who were
with Kelly.

Kelly had a long history of run-ins with police and the court
system.

In 2004, along with several other men, he was charged with attempted
murder with a firearm in a violent home invasion and robbery at a
marijuana grow operation in Surrey.

He was sentenced to a year in prison for a lesser charge of breaking
and entering, and was handed a firearms ban.

At least one of the men who was charged with Kelly in the 2004
incident has known gang connections.

Robert Joshua Achadinha pleaded guilty to assault causing bodily harm
for the Jan. 9, 2004, home invasion in Surrey.

The group of young men, including an 18-year-old Kelly, had burst into
the home by kicking down the door. A 70-year-old man living there
grabbed a machete to defend himself and was shot in the chest. The
bullet lodged near his spine. The man's wife took him to the hospital.

Achadinha, then 20, pleaded guilty to assault causing bodily
harm.

Kelly also had a string of charges later, for everything from driving
while prohibited, to flight from a peace officer, to possessing a
firearm, to drug possession and production, with most of them
apparently stemming from a 2010 arrest.