Trooper said:
People...c'mon. Haven't you ever heard of "press embellishment" ? The previous comments about multiple gun shot wounds/self inflicted and self inflicted/no weapon found are the press doing what they do best. Embellish. (in other words - make sh*t up)
True, but we are talking about Irvine. This actually has the opposite effect on the press. Dude could have been shot 100 times, from 5 different directions, blood covering the entire interior of the car, 200 casings found in a 100 ft. perimeter, and... the IPD would still find a way to say they think it might be self-inflicted. I could be wrong, but...
This dude got whacked. Whether it was the Triads or Wah Ching, dude didn't pay his taxes, and we will most likely never know who it was. Because... IPD would never, ever, ever, ever, tread there. They know better. And, that is the way who made the hit wanted it to be.
Not only all that, but a few years ago VP had its first murder in years. Gasp!... a murder in VP, and he was Chinese... the world is ending. At first the press went with the hit job route, but that somehow quickly turned into a spousal dispute in how he or she was cheating. It was never clear who was cheating on whom. From some somewhat reliable sources, it was a whack job. Triads were not happy with him, and... they took care of business. You can try to google it, but even that is difficult.