SeriouslyBert: The Alkhalil Brothers

A crime group of five brothers became well known as the Alkhalil organization.

Nabil Alkhalil, Hisham “Terry” Alkhalil, and Rabih "Robby" Alkhalil.

Hisham “Terry” Alkhalil, of Ottawa, the third born of the five brothers, had buildings with a combined worth of about $1.4m seized as proceeds of crime. They had already seized Alkhalil’s newly constructed Ottawa home after his arrest in 2014. It is valued at about $1.1m. “It is the belief of investigators that these properties were obtained through their criminal operations” Hells Angel Damion Ryan was arrested in Ottawa at a home formerly owned by Hisham 'Terry' Alkhalil. The Alkhalils are Iranian and arrived in Canada from Saudi Arabia as refugees in 1990. They settled in Surrey, B.C. The first Alkhalil brother to be murdered was Khalil who was found dead with six bullets after a gunfight over a drug debt. His killer claimed self-defence and was freed. He was later gunned down in Kelowna in a case that remains unsolved. Rabih "Robby" Alkhalil was suspected.

Mahmoud Alkhalil, 19, the fourth oldest, was one of 3 people killed in a gunfight in 2003 between rival gangs in Vancouver’s Loft Six nightclub.

He made it out of the club but died after crashing his car 20 blocks away. The Alkhalil family moved to Ontario and Quebec after years of gang violence.

Soon after his release from jail in 2005, eldest Nabil Alkhalil was stopped in his Cadillac for speeding on Highway 401. When he was asked to open the trunk, he drove off, leaving his brother Hisham behind. He led police on a long, high-speed chase. He was caught with a duffel bag with 11 kilos of cocaine. Nabil Alkhalil was convicted of cocaine trafficking and ordered deported but no country would grant him travel papers. Nabil Alkhalil was killed in Aug 2018 in Mexico. He was the third of the brothers in the crime family to die violently.