Barzan Tilli-Choli

Barzan Tilli-Choli (born 1982) is an Iraqi criminal gang participant who served as the leader of the United Nations gang in 2008–2009. He is originally from Zakho, Kurdistan, Iraq.

Early career Tilli-Choli was born into a Kurdish family in Iraqi Kurdistan and arrived in Canada as a refugee at the age of 17 in 1999. He was never granted Canadian citizenship and only held permanent resident status, placing him in a legal category that made it easier for the government to deport him back to Iraq. Vallee was charged with the murder of Red Scorpion Keven LeClair in 2009. C. testified on 8 May 2017: "Barzan starts lowering the rear window, the rear driver's side window...He starts aiming his weapon at the vehicles and he's starts firing at the Cherokee...Barzan was able to see into the window and said 'holy shit it's a girl!'. He stopped firing". Ly was overheard on videotape telling Tilli-Choli to "unload the whole thing" (i.e. fire the entire round of his AK-47) if he saw the Bacon brothers. A policeman once found Tilli-Choli kicking Cotrell who was on the ground in a fetal position. Despite the order, Cotrell soon moved back in with Tilli-Choli.

On 27 January 2011 Trebbe, who worked as a realtor in the Lower Mainland, was acquitted of the firearms charges. On 13 December 2013, Cotrell was acquitted of the attempted murder charges relating to the Willock-Sunderland incident, but was convicted of assault.

Deportation On 19 January 2017, Tilli-Choli was deported back to his native Iraq after finishing his prison sentence for his conspiracy to commit murder conviction.

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