Burnaby shooting kills 1, injures another
Third fatal shooting in Lower Mainland within week
Last Updated: Sunday, May 11, 2008 | 2:53 PM PT
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Police examine the vehicle driven by a 23-year-old Langley man who was shot Friday while driving in Burnaby. (CBC) A Langley man was killed and a young woman was taken to hospital with non life-threatening injuries after what police are calling a targeted shooting in Burnaby, B.C., Friday night.
An autopsy is scheduled for Monday on the 23-year-old victim.
On Sunday, police said they have not identified any suspects.
The shooting happened shortly after 10 p.m. Friday when several shots were fired from another vehicle at the Porche SUV the Langley man was driving along the 7000 block of Kingsway, Cpl. Dale Carr of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team said Saturday.
The man lost control of the SUV and veered into the side of a furniture store near 14th Avenue. No one was inside the store at the time.
Shots were also fired at a second car that had been following the victim's SUV. The 17-year-old female driver, a friend of the victim's, was hit and suffered minor injuries, police said.
The shooting victim's car struck the side of this furniture shop in the 7000 block of Kingsway near 14th Avenue in Burnaby. (CBC) Carr said the victim had no previous contact with police and the shooting didn't appear to be gang-related.
"Our investigators have not made any links to organized crime, to any other homicides or to drugs," he said.
"Based on info we've received, we feel this was a targeted attack so the community does not have to worry."
Some nearby residents said they are concerned about the latest shooting in Metro Vancouver.
"We were in bed and I jumped up," said Jean Graham, who lives in a townhouse close to where the shooting took place.
"It was just boom, boom, boom — like a machine gun … I'm not much on guns but it was scary."
The Burnaby incident is the third fatal shooting within a week in the Lower Mainland.
A 40-year-old man was shot dead inside the front door of his house on the 1400 block of Kipling Street in Abbotsford Thursday night.
A 30-year-old Richmond man was gunned down outside the Cecil strip club in downtown Vancouver Wednesday night.
Police believe those two shootings are linked to gang activity and investigations on both continue.
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