Death Richmond dinner gathered at “big brother” in Toronto.

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The man prosecutors say was behind a fatal shooting at a Richmond restaurant left the diner before the gunman opened fire and killed another diner, a witness told B.C.'s Supreme Court Wednesday.

On September 18, 2020, Jack Qin, who had a reservation at Manzo Restaurant, told Justice Jeanne Wachuk that he wanted to go home to walk the man's dog and got up early to pay his bill.

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Qin used a different name for the man, which Crown identified as Jin Tsai in his opening. In fact, most of the names mentioned in Qin Wednesday's testimony were incomplete or pseudonyms.

Shortly after Kai left, seven shots were fired through the restaurant's window, killing alleged money launderer Jian Jun Zhu and wounding his associate Paul King Jin.

Richard Reed is charged with first-degree murder of Zhu and attempted murder of Jin, who was in a single-judge trial in Vancouver law courts every day.

Cron's theory in the case is that Jin, whom Qin referred to as Pao, was the target of the shooting, and that Reed, hired for $6,000, later told a friend that he killed the wrong man.

Qin said that everyone was having a good time when they “heard a sound like balloons popping. It's explosion, explosion, explosion,” he said through a Mandarin translator. “I saw the man on my right fall. I saw that Brother Pao was injured, and he was on my left side.''

He said the mood was “amazing” before the shoot.

“You can see people drinking alcohol. “Everyone was toasting each other,” Qin said. “You can see in the video that everyone was happy.”

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He said he doesn't drink Kai.

“He said he would go home and walk the dog,” Qin said.

After the gunshot, he saw blood on Jin's face.

“Everyone was very nervous. We tried to send him to the hospital,” Qin said. “I was scared because I didn't know what happened. Someone said it was gunfire. I didn't know who said there was a gun.”

Gene “said a few words, but I don't remember what he said. Everyone was very nervous. He was badly injured and everyone was shouting “go to the hospital, go to the hospital”. »

Qin said he ran outside with everyone but returned to the set after realizing he didn't have his cell phone.

When he went back inside, Zhu heard a sound coming from outside.

“Hiccup was like a man taking his last breath,” he said.

Qin began his testimony by telling Watchuk that the dinner that night was in honor of a Toronto man he knew as his older brother Li, whose full name is Xiang Hua Li. She met an Ontario man and suggested they meet for dinner, she said.

Qin, who runs a Richmond currency exchange, admitted under cross-examination that he was in business with Kai, who ran “clubhouses” for unlicensed gambling.

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Kai, 53, was killed in Vancouver months after the Manzo shooting.

Qin was greedy for doing business with both Zhu and Jin, who ran an underground bank called Silver International with protector Kevin Westell. Both are the subjects of several civil forfeiture lawsuits by the BC government alleging criminal activity.

He also agreed that he was once barred from entering the Edgewater Casino.

Westell played a video of Qin arriving at the restaurant and suggested redirecting Zhu to a table near the window where the shooting took place.

Qin: “How could I have known that something would happen that night?”

The trial continues.

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