Kim Bolan, Vancouver Sun

ABBOTSFORD — Homicide detectives and municipal police officers kept a close watch Monday on the funeral here of gang associate and Abbotsford businessman Jaswant (Billy) Rai.

Tensions ran high in the parking lot as the large crowd dispersed in the early afternoon with some mourners shielding their face from a police video camera.

And others from the funeral gathering took their own photos of cars and licence plates in the parking lot at Henderson’s funeral home.

Rai, 36, was gunned down on a rural road just after midnight June 30 in what police described as “a targeted hit.”

The local businessman was "well-known to police" for his associations with gangsters and his own criminal past.

At least five police vehicles - marked and unmarked - parked in front of the funeral home on Marshall Road. Both uniformed and plainclothes officers monitored those who arrived.