Men playing football in a Vancouver suburb on a warm evening in June 2023 thought someone was letting off fireworks when their game was interrupted by sequence of bangs coming from a nearby Sikh temple.
It was when they saw a stationary grey pickup truck, its windows blown out by bullets fired by two hitmen in dark clothes, and the bleeding corpse of Hardeep Singh Nijjar within, that they realised a murder had taken place. Bravely, some gave chase and but the assassins sped away in a waiting car.
