The man gunned down in a Saturday bowling alley shooting, which also claimed the life of a bystander, is an alleged member of a gang feuding with a rival group in a conflict that may have put his father in the crossfire four years ago, a 2014 Toronto police document obtained by The Star shows. Thanh Tien Ngo was shot to death at Playtime Bowl & Entertainment in North York on Saturday night. Three suspects are still on the loose, and two of them were armed when they chased down 32-year-old Ngo, police said. A woman who was leaving the facility with her husband and sister was also shot outside. Ruma Amar, 29, died of her injuries at Sunnybrook Hospital on Saturday night. Her sister told the Star in an interview that she saw one masked man holding a gun. Thanh Ngo was pronounced dead at the scene. He was allegedly a member of Chin Pac, a rival gang to the Asian Assassinz, a 2014 police document says. Toronto Homicide Det. Rob Choe said the gunfire in Saturday’s shooting was intended for Thanh Ngo, and that Amar and he did not know each other. But Thanh Ngo was known to police. In 2010, he was convicted of two trafficking charges, one count of possession of stolen property over $5,000, and failure to comply with a probation order, Oshawa court staff confirmed to the Star. His father, Ngoc Ngo, was shot multiple times in an “execution style” killing after he answered the door at his Symington Ave. property, and he was pronounced dead at the scene in March 2014. The elderly gardener and landscaper was at home with his wife and another relative at the time. Police did not specify who the other relation was. “This is not a random killing. It is targeted by some perceived injustice by a 64-year-old gardener, or a mistaken identity where the shooter is just plain careless and has no regard for anyone else in that home or in the vicinity,” said then-homicide Det. Sgt. Pauline Gray in a 2014 press conference. “I am having difficulty c ...
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