Brandon Vito Hughes’ killers were waiting for him on July 23, 2009. After coming home from Vancouver’s Celebration of Light fireworks, Brandon Vito Hughes was gunned down outside his North Vancouver home.
 Call IHIT at 1-877-551-4448, IHIT File#2009-6580, or Crime Stoppers. “The investigation remains open and active, time and distance can be a factor in our favor in historical investigations.” | Kevin Hughes ran out to the front gate and tried in vain to save his son. In the early morning of July 23, 2009 Brandon Vito Hughes was pronounced dead in hospital. IHIT issued a public plea for information about the shooting.  |  Brandon Vito Hughes was 28 when he was murdered. |
 Donato Decotiis said threats had been made against him and other family members, including Hughes, because of a long-running family feud. |  |  |
 Rocco Dipopolo | Donato Decotiis said thugs linked to the HA had been hired.  Don Decotiis, Hayley Winter, Ivano Decotiis. |  Damiano Dipopolo |
 Dec. 11, 2005. Vancouver Province. A long feud in a family whose name is tied to some of Vancouver’s biggest real-estate developments has spilled into B.C. Supreme Court. It comes with allegations of threats, assaults, intimidation – and a contract to kill a family member.” | Donato Decotiis, then 44, sought a court injunction and damages to protect himself from 8 family members. The suit alleged that the 8 Decotiis family defendants “have engaged, hired or employed the defendants Rocco Dipopolo and Damiano Dipopolo to assault, threaten and/or intimidate the plaintiff” |  VPD investigated an incident between Donato Decotiis and the Dipopolos. No charges were laid.[18] At some point, on a date which was not clear in the evidence, Mr. Dipopolo won $80,000 in a lottery. He gave his twin brother $30,000 as a gift. [48] At some point, Mr. Dipopolo acquired a one-third interest in a company called Liquid Zoo Holdings Ltd. |
[62] Liquid Zoo Holdings executed a mortgage dated May 12, 2006, in favour of Amacon for the amount of $650,000. However, this mortgage was not registered until more than one year later, on August 10, 2007.  |  Dipopolo appeared to consider the mortgage to be further security for Amacon’s $350,000 loan to the three Liquid Zoo Holdings shareholders made about one year earlier. |  In July 2005 the Kelowna newspaper reported; “The biker gang owns more than 20 homes in the city and more than a dozen businesses including Champagne Charlies on Lawrence Ave., Digstown Clothing on Pandosy St., Pier Marine Pub in Westbank and Splash’s Nite Club on Leon Ave. |
  Marcello DeCotiis, Lilliana DeCotiis. | Lilliana De Cotiis runs the hospitality division of real estate developer Amacon, which she co-owns with eldest sibling Teresa and older brothers Donato, Luca and Marcello. Lillianna DeCotiis threatened that the Dipopolos would assault Donato De Cotiis. Sunday, July 26, 2009. The targeted murder of Brandon Vito Hughes was preceded by a tense family feud that included death threats within the De Cotiis clan. In 2003 Paolo De Cotiis threatened Brandon Hughes with death. |   Brandon Vito Hughes |
Inno created his own real estate development company and named it by spelling his own name backwards: Onni. He died in 2020. The company is now run by sons Rossano DeCotiis and Morris DeCotiis. |   Youngest brother Michael then founded and still runs Pinnacle International. |
 | August 6th, 2010. B.C. Court of Appeal issues ruling in De Cotiis family feud. Donato De Cotiis’s lawsuit against companies controlled by his uncles Amalio, Inno, and Mike was dismissed. Donato De Cotiis’s deceased father Marcangelo, a construction magnate, was also listed as a plaintiff. “This dispute is only part of a larger family feud that unfolded against a backdrop of profitable corporations and partnerships,” Newbury wrote in the court’s reasons for judgment. This lawsuit was a spinoff of another major dispute, which was addressed in a 1995 B.C. Supreme Court decision. |
 | Connected with disgraced realtor Shahin Behroyan is agent Teresa Decotiis. She was directly involved in Behroyan’s $75k scam for half. The Decotiis hired HA Damiano Dipopolo and his brother Rocco in a bitter family feud. Brandon Vito Hughes is thereafter whacked after multiple threats. The Decotiis family financed the Hells Angels expansion into Kelowna for seven figures, unsecured.  |  tdecotiis@gmail.com |
| Teresa Decotiis was directly involved, along with her siblings, as management of Amacon, the corporate entity that cut the cheques to Dipopolo. Teresa Decotiis has bitched to the cops multiple times about this blogger’s true facts. She managed 80 votes running for West Vancouver mayor in 2022. In an e-mail she states “Brandon Hughes had an ex girlfriend that did that to him. It’s very sad as he was a nice boy who got caught with many girl friends and the wrong crowd, I was not close to him. “ |
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