| rdfs:comment | - Ross allegedly started his criminal career as a $200-a-week numbers runner in the 1960s. He eventually rose to become the right-hand man of Frank "Dunie" Ryan the founding boss of the West End Gang. When Ryan was murdered in 1984, Ross quickly filled the void and took over his crime network. But as the loyal subordinate that Ross was, his first order of business was to avenge Ryan's death. Thirteen days after Ryan's death, his alleged murderers Paul April and Robert Lelievre, along with two of their associates, were blown up in an apartment building. The blast tore their bodies to bits and injured eight others. Ross allegedly hired Hells Angels Yves "Apache" Trudeau and Michel Blass to carry out the hit, promising to pay the duo $200,000. He later reneged on the deal, paying the hitmen onl
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| abstract | - Ross allegedly started his criminal career as a $200-a-week numbers runner in the 1960s. He eventually rose to become the right-hand man of Frank "Dunie" Ryan the founding boss of the West End Gang. When Ryan was murdered in 1984, Ross quickly filled the void and took over his crime network. But as the loyal subordinate that Ross was, his first order of business was to avenge Ryan's death. Thirteen days after Ryan's death, his alleged murderers Paul April and Robert Lelievre, along with two of their associates, were blown up in an apartment building. The blast tore their bodies to bits and injured eight others. Ross allegedly hired Hells Angels Yves "Apache" Trudeau and Michel Blass to carry out the hit, promising to pay the duo $200,000. He later reneged on the deal, paying the hitmen only $25,000 and telling them to collect the balance from other Hells Angels, who owed Ryan hundreds of thousands of dollars in drug debts. Ross would forever remain loyal to his friend Ryan. A couple of years later, he approached a Montreal Gazette columnist in bar to pass along a message to two of the journalist's friends who were prying into Ryan's life: "Why do you guys at The Gazette brother Dunie's kids?" Ross was quoted as asking. "Say anything you want about us, but leave the kids out of it. Ryan's dead, Why not leave him alone? What's the point? Why not attack us guys who are still around?".
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