Hung Van (Scarface) Bui was found slumped in the driver's seat of a car Monday night, the victim of a targeted shooting.

Hung Van Bui, 27, is believed to be the victim of a targeted shooting in Vancouver Monday night.
Handout photoThey came back and finished him off," said the source.Hung Van (Scarface) Bui, 27, was found slumped in the driver's seat of a car Monday night, the victim of a targeted shooting. Police have not identified the victim but a high-placed source told the Vancouver Province it was Bui - a man with well-known criminal affiliations who survived last summer's gangland style slayings at Fortune Happiness restaurant. The Aug. 9 shooting at the all-night eatery - where two masked gunmen opened fire on a table of nine people, killing two people and injuring six, including Bui - remains unsolved. Bui was shot at least six times, said the source, but survived his wounds. He had "a million enemies" and was known to have been involved in ripping off drug dealers, added the source.Bui was also the prime suspect in the 1999 murder of 35-year-old UPS courier Andrew Allan, who was stabbed once in the abdomen in the parking lot of an Edmonton curling club.Police believe the attack stemmed from a road-rage incident half a block away. A Canada-wide warrant for Bui's arrest was issued and his photo was plastered all over the local papers. Two months later, Edmonton police collared Bui, then 20 and a suspected member of a cocaine-trafficking gang, after he was caught fleeing the scene of a fatal shooting. The driver of the car Bui was in was shot and killed. Police believe the shooting was part of a turf war between rival drug gangs.Bui was charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of Allan, but in 2000, charges against him were stayed after the prosecution determined there was not enough evidence to justify proceeding against Bui.
He surfaced again in B.C. two years later in a break-and-enter of a Vancouver residence. In August 2004, he was sentenced to two years less a day in jail and 18 months' probation. The burglary appears to have been violent: Court documents reveal that an "extensive amount" of the victim's blood was found in the house. Bui himself sought treatment at a hospital for what the documents called a "particularly ugly wound on his face, with what looks like many stitches."The disfiguring scar would leave Bui with the nickname Scarface in underworld circles. Almost a decade after Andrew Allan's death, his mother, Giovanna Kostiw, still believes Bui is guilty, even though he was never tried or convicted in court.
"The Edmonton City Police told us they were 99.9 per cent sure he was the man," said Kostiw, 76, from her home. "They know who did it. But they just couldn't prove it."
Kostiw, who still has a framed photo of Allan in her living room and drinks a toast to him every night, said she's held on to the belief that justice will eventually be done.
"(Our family) figured if this justice system couldn't get him then the one above would," she said, her voice breaking. "There is a higher court than the Supreme Court."
The news of Bui's death came as a shock to Kostiw and while she may have gained a bit of consolation "in a roundabout way" she said it's still a sad story all around: "I've always felt sorry for that poor young man, that creature's, mother," she said. "She lost her son a good number of years before I lost mine."