3 men facing charges in extortion-related shooting of former Cricket Canada official's house

Three men are facing charges in connection with two extortion-related shootings at the Calgary home of a former Cricket Canada board member, the fifth estate has learned. One suspect remains at large.

The shootings happened in late February and early March in a northeast Calgary neighbourhood, forcing the board member to temporarily relocate with his family. 

"It's scary, to a point where I was like, 'is Canada even safe?'," said the official, whose identity the fifth estate agreed to protect because he fears for his safety and that his family could be targeted again. 

"I can tell you that bullet, if that was fired a little bit of a different angle, it could have gone through me, right?"

He resigned from Cricket Canada the morning of the second shooting. 

The fifth estate obtained exclusive video of the first shooting. It shows a white sedan driving by the home, then reversing and slowing at the end of the driveway before multiple shots are fired at the house.

The former board member says that in the days before the second shooting, he received at least 100 phone calls and hundreds of disappearing text messages. 

He says that during the two calls he answered, the person on the other end demanded $150,000. 

"[The caller] told me that it was him who shot at the house and he wanted money and that was it," the former official said. "And he said more will come, more shootings will come, if you don't pay."

He says the shootings are directly related to his work at Cricket Canada, where he handled contracts and litigation matters.

The former official told the fifth estate that he believes the threats are connected to his involvement in a deal between Cricket Canada and an outside business group looking to hold cricket