Ricardo Francis Scarpino was a happy, social child. When his family lived in Williams Lake, he would play all day in the woods with other kids. When he moved with his mom and step-dad as a teen to ...

A week after he was released from prison, gangster Ricardo Scarpino was shot to death Saturday as he arrived at his own engagement party at an upscale Vancouver restaurant. Scarpino was parking ...

Dianne Monds says she was in shock but not surprised when her son Ricardo Scarpino was gunned down in January 2008, one of 290 unsolved murders over the past 12 years in the Lower Mainland.

Vancouver–Fifteen years after Ricardo Scarpino pulled a gun and killed a man sitting across the table from him at a busy restaurant, it was his turn at the other end of the barrel. Scarpino, 37 ...

Two men were shot and killed outside a downtown Vancouver restaurant on Saturday night. Police have identified one of the victims as Ricardo Scarpino, a 37-year-old from West Vancouver.

Const. Tim Fanning told a news conference Sunday that West Vancouver resident Ricardo Scarpino was sitting in an SUV with his fiancee and two other men, one of whom was also killed.

Ricardo Scarpino, 37, was gunned down after he arrived at Gotham’s Steakhouse with his fiancee for the couple’s engagement party. A 38-year-old man who was also in the car was killed, too.

A quick defence of the decision not to put a label on Scarpino is that police have given no indication to local media about an organized “Italian-Canadian” gang problem.

The private party, booked into a secluded downstairs room at the restaurant, was to have celebrated the recent engagement of one of the victims, 37-year old Ricardo Francis Scarpino of West Vancouver.

Mr. LePage was living in West Vancouver with Ricardo Scarpino, the other man - previously identified - killed in the shooting near a busy intersection in the core of the city.

Const. Tim Fanning told a news conference Sunday that West Vancouver resident Ricardo Scarpino was sitting in an SUV with his fiancée and two other men, one of whom was also killed.