Victoria man’s killing followed dispute with bikers at nightclub, trial told

John Dillon Brown thought he was going to receive money in exchange for dropping a lawsuit for injuries he received in a fight with bikers at the Voodoo Lounge in Campbell River.

Instead, he was shot in the back of the head and stuffed in the trunk of his car, which was abandoned on the side of the road 75 kilometres north of Campbell River.

That information was revealed Tuesday on the first day of Richard Ernest Alexander’s trial for the first-degree murder of Brown on March 11, 2016.

With his defence lawyer by his side, Alexander, the former president of the Devil’s Army Motorcycle Club, stood, looked directly at the jury and in a loud voice entered a plea of not guilty.

Crown prosecutor Lorne ­Phipps told the jury that Brown’s murder was set in motion in November 2015 when a group of Hells Angels travelled to Campbell River to hang out with members of the Devil’s Army, their support club.