| Richard "Bam Bam" Lagacé |
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| Richard Lagacé, called "Bam Bam" was born in 1959 and was among the founding members of the Cazzetta brothers' Rock Machine gang. Described by the media as a "Rock Machine leader," Lagace commanded respect from the other members of the band. Police arrested Yves "Flag" Gagné, a majore figure in the Hells Angels Trois-Rivieres chapter, Guy Majeau, a member of the Rowdy Crew's Lanaudiere branch, and Normand Lortie, a Hells sympathizer and owner of a Laval strip club, on December 7, 1995, and charged them with conspiring to murder Lagace, Rock Machine Paul "Sasquatch" Porter, and Dark Circle member Louis-Jacques Deschenes. On October 28, 1998, police arrested 25 suspected Rock Machine members and associates as they dined in the restaurant of a downtown hotel. The men were forced to lie on the ground, searched, and then took away in handcuffs. Lagace and fellow Rock Machine Denis Belleau, who |
| were among those arrested, were freed the next day, after swearing to stay away from the others that were picked up by police. Lagacé was shot to death on July 30, 1998, as he left the Ben Weider Health Club in Saint-Lin. The two killers then forced their way into a house, held a woman at gunpoint while they stole her car keys, and sped away in her red Nissan. The automobile was later found abandoned in a Saint-Sophie cemetery. The firearm used in the murder was also retrieved by police. Police watched and took notes as almost 60 Rock Machine members and associates attended Lagace's funeral four days later. The men crowded in a Saint-lin church and payed homage to one of the original members of the now infamous biker club. |