Vancouver police identified Cliff Suomphonh Thammavongsa on Thursday as the city’s second homicide victim of the year.
The 22-year-old was killed by gunfire on Wednesday around 1 p.m. in the 1500 block of East 10th Avenue while driving a car. He died in hospital an hour later.
The victim’s family, in mourning at their Abbotsford home, declined to comment on his passing.
Thammavongsa had no run-ins with police and nothing of apparent interest was found in his vehicle, Const. Lindsey Houghton said.
Police have no suspects in custody. No information was released of how the victim was shot in a moving car, his affiliations or what he was doing in the neighbourhood at that time.
Investigators, however, believe the man was the victim of a targeted hit.
Police canvassed the surrounding area for surveillance footage and other clues on Thursday.
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- Dharm Makwana currently serves as a web editor at The Province, British Columbia's best read daily newspaper. For more than four years he wrote on issues affecting the Lower Mainland for the province's third largest daily newspaper Vancouver 24 hours. Before arriving in Vancouver in January 2007, Dharm won the John Lott Scholarship for outstanding journalism at Centennial College. Since then Dharm has developed an interest in municipal and provincial politics, crime and policing and social issues including immigration, prostitution and trafficking. He is currently working on a series of stories involving Vancouver's sex workers.
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