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A Londoner accused of shooting a man during a botched robbery last week in the city’s east end has links to an outlaw motorcycle club, The Free Press has learned.

While the two men charged in the incident remain in custody awaiting bail hearings – they’re being held in separate jails – court documents reveal new details about what investigators believe happened in London’s second shooting of 2019.

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The string of violent events started in the early morning Feb. 25 when three men, armed with a gun, knives and a baseball bat, went to a home on Florence Street near Kellogg Lane and robbed residents. While the men were leaving, several shots were fired, striking one of the men, police said.

Officers sent to the scene at about 1:15 a.m. Feb. 25 arrested a suspect nearby and recovered a gun, police said.

A man was treated at hospital for multiple gunshot wounds.

Police announced seven charges the next day against Craig Chapman, 33, of London for firearms-related offences and assaulting a police officer.