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Looks like it was a Hells Angel member

VANCOUVER - A high-profile member of the Hells Angels is believed to be dead after being shot several times at his Vancouver home this morning.

Juel Ross Stanton was on bail on a series of charges after a fight at the American Hotel earlier this year.

Neighbours say they heard about 10 shots at about 6 a.m. in the quiet residential neighbourhood at W.11th Avenue and Columbia Street, near City Hall.

About 10 police cars and three ambulances are on scene, and authorities have taped off a two-block area around the home.

Neighbours say they saw Staton's body lying on the driveway of his huge renovated heritage house. At about 7 a.m., Stanton's wife was heard yelling at police, witnesses say.

"My f***ing husband's dead, and now you're going through the drawers of my house," neighbours heard. "Do you think someone's hiding in a pinhole?"

Vancouver Police are not confirming anything other than a major police incident. VPD Const. Jana McGuinness is expected to make a statement at 8:30 a.m.

Most neighbours did not want to be quoted by name. Several have complained to the Vancouver Sun over the last two years of harassment and intimidation by Stanton and his HA friends who would show up at all hours.

But another neighbour said Stanton could also be really nice and helped her son when his bike broke down in front of the house.

"It was only a matter of time before something like this happened," she said.

Stanton was due in Vancouver Provincial Court today on a series of weapons and assault counts in relation to alleged bar attacks that happened a few months ago.

Vancouver's gang squad has visited East End Hell's Angel president John Bryce to warn him Stanton was out of hand.

"We did tell him that Mr. Stanton's behaviour was unacceptable on a number of different levels and as far as I can tell, they chose not to do anything about it," Insp. Brad Desmarais said.

Stanton was ordered released on 21 strict bail conditions that prevented him from displaying any Hells Angel clothing, logo or even his biker tattoos publicly. Nor could he have Hells Angel images on his vehicles or properties.

"These unprecedented conditions have effectively stripped this gang member of his identity and the one thing he relied on most to frighten and intimidate people," Desmarais said.

Stanton has also been banned from being in the company of other Hells Angels or associates, except for his own son Dillon, according to the conditions set by Judge Jocelyn Palmer.

The charges against Stanton, 41, related to incidents at the Ivanhoe pub on Main Street in March and April 2010.

"Mr. Stanton, who owns a construction company called Juel Forming, was also acquitted in 2003 in another alleged beating, robbery and extortion.The judge ruled the man claiming to be the victim was "a manipulative liar."

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