The eldest of the three, and at the time of his death the only one of the brothers not behind bars. On the afternoon of August 14, 2011, Jonathan was leaving Kelowna’s Delta Grand Hotel in a white Porsche Cayenne when a second vehicle pulled alongside and a masked gunman opened fire. Jonathan, 30, was killed. Also in the vehicle: Larry Amero, a Hells Angels member who was wounded; Leah Hadden-Watts, whose spine was shattered by gunfire, leaving her permanently paralyzed; a second woman who was also injured; and a fourth target, James Riach, who escaped the vehicle unhurt. Police later said the shooting was retaliation tied to the broader gang conflict, and prosecutors would eventually establish that members of the rival United Nations gang had separately conspired to kill all three Bacon brothers years earlier, in 2008 and 2009 — five men pleaded guilty to that conspiracy in 2013. Three men were eventually convicted in Jonathan’s murder itself, pleading guilty to second-degree murder and conspiracy in 2018.

The youngest brother, and the one whose case reaches furthest back. On October 19, 2007, six men were found dead on the 15th floor of Surrey’s Balmoral Tower apartment building — four of them targeted, including rival Corey Lal, and two innocent bystanders who happened to be in the wrong apartment. The killings, which became known as the Surrey Six, stand among the deadliest single incidents in the province’s gang history. Jamie Bacon was arrested in 2009 and the case against him took more than a decade to resolve. In September 2020 he pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to murder Corey Lal; a first-degree murder charge was stayed as part of the deal. He was sentenced to 18 years, plus a concurrent 10-year sentence for a separate count of counselling to commit murder tied to a December 2008 shooting. With credit for time already served since his 2009 arrest, his remaining term came to five years, seven months and eight days. B.C. Supreme Court Justice Kathleen Ker acknowledged in her sentencing remarks that some would have preferred she reject the joint submission and impose a life sentence, but found the case did not meet the bar to override an agreement negotiated by experienced counsel on both sides. Eileen Mohan, whose son Christopher was one of the two bystanders killed, said publicly that the sentence was impossible to accept.

On April 22, 2026, the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit confirmed Jamie Bacon had completed his sentence and been released on a peace bond under section 810 of the Criminal Code. He is subject to a curfew and unspecified conditions, and is being monitored by provincial corrections in Alberta and local police in Edmonton, where he has relocated.

The middle brother has the longest run of separate legal proceedings of the three. He was acquitted at a weapons trial in the early 2010s, then convicted in 2012 of conspiracy to traffic 100 kilograms of cocaine and sentenced to 14 years in federal prison. The Parole Board of Canada’s file on that sentence noted several additional violent-offence charges — including attempted murder, assault causing bodily harm, and discharging a firearm with intent — that had been dropped and were not part of the conviction. He has been released from custody more than once in the years since.

By October 2024, Jarrod Bacon was reported to be living in Fort Nelson, in B.C.’s far northeast. On January 29, 2025, a man was shot in the parking lot of the Nic Mac Building in Fort Nelson in what Northern Rockies RCMP called a targeted shooting. Bacon, then 41, and a second man, John Chasse, also 41, were arrested and charged — Bacon with aggravated assault, Chasse with assault. Roughly two weeks later, on February 14, 2025, the BC Prosecution Service stayed the charge against Bacon, saying new information received during the ongoing investigation meant the charge-approval standard was no longer met. The Crown gave no further detail on what that information was. No replacement charge against Bacon in that incident has been reported since.