Two-on-one B.C. gym assault started with dispute over weight bench

Ali Alabed and Sa’Ad Munshed were working out together at the Poirier Recreation Centre in Coquitlam, B.C., on Feb. 27, 2024, when Zhe Ming Bryan Wong asked an elderly Asian man who was exercising with dumbbells if the weight bench beside him was free. The man gave him a nod and Wong, a 32-year-old accountant and digital marketer, wheeled the bench to the gym’s cable machine area.