BOTH HUNTER AND HUNTED SHEDDEN MASSACRE SUSPECT WAS A CAREER CRIMINAL

Wayne Kellestine has been both the hunter and the hunted in his lifetime.

Kellestine, 56 -- one of five suspects charged in the Shedden
massacre -- was a prolific career criminal before he supposedly
renounced his biker activities to a London judge in 2002.

For the past year the former gang leader has purportedly been trying
to form a local chapter of the Bandidos, whose sworn arch rival is
the world's largest outlaw biker gang, the Hells Angels.

Kellestine was the leader of both the Annihilators and the Loners,
two biker gangs that are now defunct but wreaked havoc on the small
southwestern community he lived in.

A Target In 1999

In 1991, Kellestine was charged in the shooting of Thomas Harmsworth,
who was hit with four bullets. Harmsworth was taken to hospital but
charges against Kellestine were dropped when the victim refused to
talk to police.

The leader of the Loners was also the target of an assassination
attempt himself in 1999, when members of the club rebelled against
him and tried to kill him in a drive-by shooting. The mutiny arose
after talk of striking an alliance with the Hells Angels.

In the same year, Kellestine was slammed with 39 weapons charges --
including possession of prohibited weapons like automatic rifles and
a rocket launcher -- as well as a charge of conspiring to commit
bodily harm in connection with a drive-by shootout in Iona Station.

Wife Charged Too

Other charges included possession of weapons obtained by crime and
multiple counts of careless storage. Also charged was his wife, Tina
Fitzgerald. They have a daughter.

Kellestine was sentenced to two years in federal penitentiary after
pleading guilty to 22 weapons charges in 2002.

Police sources also say Kellestine was known for domestic assault.

In 2000, the notorious gang leader was sentenced to two years less a
day after pleading guilty to six charges related to a 1997 raid on a
marijuana grow-op on the Chippewa of the Thames reserve.

He sold a kilo of hashish to an undercover agent for $6,500, and was
photographed with a number of guns, even though he was prohibited
from owning weapons at the time.

Kellestine has also racked up seven failed robbery attempts since
1974 -- all of which have been foiled by his own clumsiness and
almost comic execution.

In 2001, Kellestine was sentenced to 30 months in prison for a brazen
robbery at a TD Bank in the London area, in which he pulled a carpet
knife and demanded $2,000. Kellestine fled on foot and was arrested
moments later.

He told police he picked that location because it was close to a bus stop.

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In 2000, the notorious gang leader was sentenced to two years less a
day after pleading guilty to six charges related to a 1997 raid on a
marijuana grow-op on the Chippewa of the Thames reserve.

He sold a kilo of hashish to an undercover agent for $6,500, and was
photographed with a number of guns, even though he was prohibited
from owning weapons at the time.