The 329 people killed on an Air India plane in 1985 were killed Thursday in a possible targeted shooting. Officials said the victim was Repudhaman Singh Malik, who along with other co-defendant, Ajip Singh Bajri, was convicted in March 2005 of murder and plotting in two Air India bombings that killed 331 people on June 23, 1985. Police did not initially release the identity of the dead man, but they confirmed That's after Malik's son, Jaspreet Malik, reported in a statement on social media that his father had been killed. A car believed to have been used in the shooting was burning several blocks away. At Malik's trial, the British Columbia Supreme Court heard that a suitcase bomb was loaded onto a plane at Vancouver Airport and then flown in Toronto to Air India Flight 182. The plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Ireland, killing 329 passengers and crew. The Plane. . About an hour later, a bomb bound for another Air India plane exploded prematurely at Tokyo's Narita Airport, killing two baggage handlers. Inderjit Singh Ryat, the only man convicted of the bombings, testified before the prosecution in Malik and Baghri's trial and was later convicted of perjury. Deepak Kandelwal of Oakville, Ontario, said the shooting "just brings back all the horrific memories we've had for the past 37 years." He was 17 when his sisters, 21-year-old Chandra and 19-year-old Manju, were killed on Flight 182. "It's like a nightmare that never stops giving," he said.