Gurmit Singh Dhak was so concerned about youth joining gangs that he agreed to talk to Vancouver’s Odd Squad, a non-profit educational group, just four months before he was gunned down in October 2010. “If I jump out of my car am I going to get shot? Or I could be walking in the mall and walking out and get shot,” said Dhak , who was gunned down outside of a Burnaby’s Metrotown mall. “Every day you wake up in the morning, is this going to be the last day that I’m going to be living?”
VANCOUVER – A dead Indo-Canadian gangster chillingly predicted his own demise while recounting he wanted to get out of gangs but that the door may have already been shut on his attempts to get out.
Gurmit Singh Dhak predicted his own death in a chilling video, shot four months before he was gunned down outside of a Burnaby mall in October 2010.
In the video, the former kingpin of the Dhak group warned against a gang life he couldn’t escape, reported the Province newspaper.
“Every day I’ve got to look over my shoulder, I’ve got to worry about my family,” Dhak told officers of Vancouver’s Odd Squad, a non-profit educational group.
“I want to get out, it’s too late to get out now, I have too many enemies.”
“If I jump out of my car am I going to get shot? Or I could be walking in the mall and walking out and get shot,” Dhak said with his face turned from the camera.
It was filmed four months before the 32-year-old was killed in a hail of bullets walking out of Metrotown mall with his family.
The Odd Squad will continue to deliver his message to kids in B.C. classrooms long after his death.
“If I could turn back time I would never do it again,” Dhak told Odd Squad officers. “My kids, I don’t want them to be involved in gangs.”
His video is one of many the Odd Squad has produced. Volunteers from the Vancouver Police Department formed the group aimed at warning kids against drug and criminal behaviour through documentaries 15 years ago.
In Dhak’s interview, he said schools should give better education on gangs, and said some schools turn a blind eye unless gang activity happens on school grounds.
He also gave a glimpse into the fears of a gangster.
“You might not be scared because you want to act all tough and stuff but at the end of the day, deep down inside you’re scared too,” Dhak said. “Every day you wake up in the morning, is this going to be the last day that I’m going to be living?”
