Gangster death investigated
by coroner
Jeffrey Chang with VPD officer after June 2014 shooting. He died July 3, 2015
The B.C. Coroners Service is investigating the death of a longtime Lower Mainland gangster who was found unresponsive in a Pitt Meadows house early Friday morning.
Just over a year ago, Jeffrey Chang escaped serious injury after a targeted Vancouver shooting that left his girlfriend Mia Deakin seriously wounded in June, 2014.
Chang, 28, wasn’t as lucky July 3 when he was found unconscious about 1 a.m. inside a house on Wildwood Crescent North.
Another gangster with Chang at the time called an ambulance. Chang died later in hospital.
Coroners Service media officer Barb McLintock confirmed an investigation is underway.
“I can confirm to you that the death of a person by that name was reported to us in the early morning hours of July 3 and is being investigated,” she said.
“The investigation is very preliminary at this point, and we are still working to determine a definite cause of death.”
Toxicology results won’t be known for some time, McLintock said.
Sources told the Sun that Chang’s death is a suspected drug overdose.
Ridge Meadows RCMP media officer Cpl. Alanna Dunlop said the Mounties were also called to the scene to assist the coroner.
She said it would be premature to comment on the cause of death at this stage.
“It’s something that the coroner is looking into,” she said. “We may be able to say more once we get toxicology reports.”
Sgt. Lindsey Houghton, of the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit, said Chang remained affiliated with the Wolf Pack gang alliance until his death.
Houghton said that after the 2014 shooting, Chang was splitting his time between B.C. and Ontario.
“We would still consider him as being involved in the ongoing Lower Mainland gang conflict with close association to the Alkhalil group, members of the Independent Soliders, Wolf Pack and many others,” Houghton said. “He’s been around and involved for many years.”
He said if Chang died from a drug overdose, he would not be the first gangster to do so.
“If this is, in fact, what happened, he is one of many who have been involved in this lifestyle who have become victims of overdoses — whether its oxy or fentanyl-linked oxy or heroin or whatever,” Houghton said.
Chang posted a photo of himself and Deakin on his Facebook page in January, 2015. He stated on the page that he was living in Montreal.
Deakin, a cast member of Real Housewives of Vancouver during its two-season run, recently gave birth to the couple’s son.
She posted a moving tribute to Chang on her Instagram account saying: “Goodbye my darling my love my soul! We will meet again one day soon my handsome man … not one moment will go by that I won’t think about you my everything.”
Chang was the younger brother of slain gangster Jonathan Chu-Ka Chang, who was 27 when he was sprayed with gunfire behind a Burnaby gym on Oct. 14, 2009. The murder remains unsolved.
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