A silver-coloured car with the driver's door open sits in a residential area of East Vancouver after the driver was shot and killed Wednesday. (CBC)

A man was shot and killed Wednesday while driving in East Vancouver.

The victim — described as an Asian male in his early 20s — was shot in the torso shortly after 1 p.m. PT while driving in the 1500 block of East 10th Avenue, police said. His car then travelled part way onto a curb and crashed into the back of a white commercial van parked on the residential street.

The man was rushed to hospital and died a short time later, police said.

Police did not immediately identify the victim or say whether he was alone in the vehicle or whether anyone else was injured.

Investigators were on the scene but had not arrested anyone in connection with the shooting, police said.

Homicide detectives were asking residents of the neighbourhood bounded by East Broadway Avenue, East 12th Avenue, Clark Drive and Commercial Drive, to call police if they found anything suspicious in their yards.

It was the second homicide in Vancouver in 2010.

The shooting comes less than two weeks after a 29-year-old man was gunned down on the city's east side.

Craig Michael Hall — who was known to police — was shot on the steps of a stranger's house in the 4400-block of Knight Street early in the morning of Jan. 16.