After Jonathan Barber was shot to death in May 2008, alleged killer Troy Tran admitted to an associate that he mistakenly believed he hit Jamie Bacon because all “white guys” look the same.

Tran, a Calgary gangster linked to the Fresh Off the Boat Killers (FK), was regularly in B.C. in the company of United Nations leader Clay Roueche and others in the gang behind a lengthy conspiracy to murder the Bacon brothers and their Red Scorpion associates.

While Tran has not been charged in the Barber murder, both he and FK gangster Billy Ly were listed as unindicted co-conspirators in B.C. Supreme Court this week in both in the slaying of Barber and the plot to kill B.C.’s most notorious gangster siblings.

And the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says the case is still open despite the guilty pleas July 8 of five gangsters in the conspiracy, suggesting more charges may be coming.

Police experts say the connections between the B.C.-based UN and the Calgary gang run so deep that Alberta gangsters were willing to kill for Roueche in this province.

Sgt. Jennifer Pound, of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team, said Friday that “police believe there was a clear link between the Fresh Off the Boat Killers and the UN gang during the period of the indictment” in the Bacon plot.

Abbotsford Police Det. Andrew Wooding, who worked on the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit probe into the UN that began in 2006, said that in the early days of the case, investigators watched as Roueche met with numerous Calgary FK gangsters, including Ly, Tran and the late Mark Kim, who was gunned down on New Year’s Eve 2007.

“It became clear from our surveillance that these guys were actually working with Roueche and taking direction from Roueche,” Wooding said.

“At the time, we believed the FK were adopted by the UN and they were benefiting by getting better access to cocaine through the UN supply lines and the UN were bringing that sort of oversight and organization and the threat of a larger group that are looking after you.”

Not only have Ly and Tran been implicated in the murder of Barber, an innocent stereo installer, but others in the FK are linked to other shootings in both Vancouver and Chilliwack, The Vancouver Sun has learned.

Wooding confirmed that both Ly and Tran were with Roueche and two others in February 2007 when the group was targeted in a shooting after leaving a downtown Vancouver nightclub around 5 a.m.

One of the FK members was paralyzed after being shot in the head.

Also that February, Chilliwack resident Clayton Eheler, identified in court documents this week as a Bacon associate at the time, was shot near his house as he drove with a woman and a young child. He survived.

Wooding said that minutes later Chilliwack RCMP pulled over Roueche’s van, driven by another UN member with a Calgary FK gangster inside. The assault rifle used in the shooting was never located, though a Glock was found in a secret compartment in the vehicle. No charges were ever laid.