Bystander among 3 killed in Calgary restaurant shooting

A bystander fleeing gunfire in a Calgary restaurant was one of three people killed in the New Year's Daygang shooting, police confirmed Monday.

PolicesaidKeni Su'a, 43, ran out of the Bolsa Vietnamese restaurant after two men entered and opened fire. Su'a was confronted by a third suspect before being gunned down by the original two shooters in the restaurant's parking lot.

Police said Su'a, a Canadian citizen, had only immigrated to Canada a few years ago from the Polynesian country of Samoa.

The gunmenwere targeting two men and a woman sitting at a table in the restaurant Macleod Trail and 94th St. SE, police said. Su'a was not among them.

The woman escaped but the two men were killed.

Police identifiedthe two dead menas Sanjeev Mann, 22,a Calgary man who is a known gang member. Also killed was Aaron Bendle, 21, of Calgary.

Police have said it's likely the shooting was an escalation of violence between two rival gangs in the city. At least one of the victims was wearing a vest designed to protect him against bullets, police said.

Owner worried aboutrestaurant

Viet Tran, who runs Bolsa with his wife, hasn't been able to get into his restaurant to feed his fish since the shooting. Tran said the closure is costing him about $1,000 a day and heworries that when he can finallyreopen, his customers won't come back.

"I do good food for them. I hope they come back because my restaurant [is] very nice."

Glyne Cayetano, a regular customer, said she immediately worried about the owners when she found out about the recent shooting.

"It's a nice place. The food is good and the people that work there, who own the store, are really happy and they make you love the place. It's my family's favourite restaurant."

Earlier on New Year's Day, a man was stabbed to death innortheast Calgary. Mustafa Mohammad Moussa,24, anewcomer to Canada from Somalia, was one of three injured people whom police found in front of a strip-mall pub on Whitefield Drive.