VANCOUVER - Vancouver police are dealing with what they say is the city's latest targeted shooting.
A man was found dead outside a south Vancouver convenience store as police responded to several reports of shots fired at about 9:40 Monday night.
Numerous apartment buildings are within sight of the Husky service station where the shooting occurred and witnesses report hearing as many as eight shots in the minutes before police arrived.
Several of the witnesses were taken to the police station for further interviews but investigators have not said if there are any significant leads in Vancouver's 12 homicide of the year.
This is the 20th confirmed shooting death and the 21st targeted fatal in Metro Vancouver since mid-January.
Police have not yet linked the Monday night killing to what Chief Jim Chu has already termed a "brutal" gang war that has seen nearly four dozen shootings across the region this year and more than 100 in recent years.
