Montreal's Top 10 gangland murders: # 5 West End Gang boss Dunie Ryan slain

   Hashish and cocaine kingpin and leader of the West End Gang Dunie Ryan, 42, was invited into room 40 of Nittolo's Motel on St. James St. W on Nov. 12, 1984.
   Ryan was a generous soul who was known for doling out cash to friends without hesitation. But others were jealous of his fame and felt oppressed by by their growing debts to Ryan, whose muscle came from killers such as Apache Trudeau, Jackie McLaughlin and supposedly the IRA, if needed.
    April was Ryan's longtime friend and dealt his cocaine in the east end. 

  He lured Ryan - an inveterate ladies man -  into the room by promising that a sexy babe was awaiting him. 

 Instead Ryan found Bob Lelievre, who was once in Machine Gun Molly's holdup gang and Eddie Phillips and possibly others. 

 Ryan was shot dead with a shot to the chest from a 12-guage Browning shotgun loaded with SSG slugs and a .45-calibre bullet through his cheek.

   The shooters were April and Phillips. The killers did not rifle through the $6,500 in Ryan's pockets.

   The massively-profitable Ryan-era West End Gang had ended forever. His inner circle eventually found themselves behind bars for drug trafficking. 

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