Dwight Mushey worked as both a professional kickboxer and boxer, albeit not an especially successful one.
32 Facts About Dwight Mushey
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Dwight Mushey had more success in taekwondo, which he had a second-degree black belt in.
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Dwight Mushey is widely believed to have worked as a hitman for the Rizzuto family in Montreal and New York.
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Dwight Mushey was a successful businessman in Winnipeg who owned a house in the upscale neighborhood of River Heights, and was accused of importing methamphetamine into Manitoba from Ontario.
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Dwight Mushey took in as a boarder, a MMA fighter, Marcello "Fat Ass" Aravena, who would be convicted in the Shedden massacre trial.
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In early 2005, Dwight Mushey was the co-owner of a nightclub and strip bar in Winnipeg, when he was recruited into the Winnipeg chapter of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club by Michael Sandham, who served as the chapter president, treasurer and secretary.
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On 25 June 2005, Dwight Mushey went with Sandham to first meet Wayne Kellestine at his farmhouse outside of Iona Station.
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On 26 November 2005, Sandham and Dwight Mushey again visited Toronto to see Muscedere who refused the demand for the full charter status because of unpaid dues.
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On 14 January 2006, Dwight Mushey went to Vancouver to buy a kilogram of cocaine to sell in Winnipeg together with ephedrine, a chemical used for the production of methamphetamine.
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Between 20 and 22 March 2006, Dwight Mushey went with Sandham to Vancouver to hold a meeting with the American Bandido leaders in the Peace Arch Park.
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Dwight Mushey took the shotgun to Kellestine's garage to saw off part of the barrel to make it more deadly in close quarters, a decision that was later used against him at the trial to prove that murder was being planned in advance.
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Sandham put on a pair of white surgical gloves and handed the surgical gloves to the others; Dwight Mushey put on a pair of leather gloves over the surgical gloves and then taped them on to his hands.
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At the sound of the shooting, Dwight Mushey rushed into the barn with his shotgun.
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Kellestine ordered Dwight Mushey to stand guard over the rest of the "no-surrender" with orders to shoot Muscedere if he tried to escape.
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Dwight Mushey was present when Kellestine shot Muscedere followed by the others.
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Dwight Mushey went out of the barn with Kellestine to watch him execute Sinopoli and Michael "Little Mikey" Trotta.
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When it came time to execute Frank "the Bammer" Salerno, his last gesture was to shake Dwight Mushey's hands and to say to think of his newly born son Mario.
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Dwight Mushey, who was a more experienced killer than Sandham, took his gun and proved it was not jammed by shooting Flanz between the eyes.
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Dwight Mushey drove a Pontiac Grand Prix automobile belonging to one of the murder victims, Michael Trotta, which left Kellestine's farmhouse at 32196 Aberdeen Line as part of a convoy early on the morning of 8 April 2006.
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Later that morning, Dwight Mushey left the Kellestine farmhouse with Sandham.
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Dwight Mushey was openly contemptuous of Sandham, whom he ridiculed for his inability to finish off Flanz.
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Dwight Mushey was facing charges of conspiracy to produce methamphetamine at the time, and one of his bail conditions was that he was to notify the police if he left Manitoba, which Dwight Mushey complied with, telling the police that he was going to Ontario on 25 March 2006.
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Sandham, in a bizarre gesture, started to pretend to be Dwight Mushey and sent out emails praising himself as Dwight Mushey.
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Dwight Mushey started to increasingly behave like he was the chapter president and began to push Sandham aside.
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About Muscederde's killing, Dwight Mushey was recorded as saying on 12 June 2006,: "This guy, he went out like a man".
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Dwight Mushey dismissed Sandham as a weak man who talked tough, but was easily bullied by Kellestine.
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On 15 June 2006, Dwight Mushey was arrested at his house for first degree murder.
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The police believed that Dwight Mushey was planning to commit three more murders at the time and decided to arrest him at once.
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Dwight Mushey enjoyed taunting Kellestine during the trial as he seemed to find angering Kellestine quite amusing.
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Kellestine's lawyer, Clay Powell, claimed Dwight Mushey had pressed on a note on his cell partition wall that read: "You're a dead man".
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On 29 October 2009, Dwight Mushey was found guilty on 7 counts of first degree murder, which led him to bow politely to the jury before he was led of the courtroom.
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Dwight Mushey is currently serving a life sentence with no chance of parole at Stony Mountain Penitentiary in Manitoba.