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Jones back in court June 20

A Gibsons man and two co-accused in the killing of gang member Jonathan Bacon will be back in court next month.

A Gibsons man and two co-accused in the killing of gang member Jonathan Bacon will be back in court next month.

The three men -Michael Kerry Hunter Jones, 25, of Gibsons, Jujhur Khun-Khun, 25, of Surrey and Jason Thomas McBride, 37, of North Vancouver -appeared in a Kelowna courtroom April 25 by video from the Surrey Pretrial Centre.

Lawyers for the three accused are still awaiting disclosure from Crown counsel, and the matter was put off to June 20.

Each is charged with first-degree murder and four counts of attempted murder in the Aug. 14, 2011 attack outside a Kelowna casino that killed Bacon and wounded four others who were sitting with him inside a parked vehicle.

The accused were arrested on Feb. 22 after an 18-month investigation, dubbed E-Nitrogen, led by the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit of B.C.

Khun-Khun's video appearance in court last week was his first. When police arrested him, he was recovering in a Surrey hospital from gunshot wounds sustained during a January attempt on his life, the second since the Bacon killing.

The three remain in custody.