Vancouver police have released the name of a second man shot to death Thursday night on the city’s east side.
Harjit Singh Mann, 49, was in a white sedan with gangster Navdip Singh Sanghera, 32, when it was sprayed by gunfire about 9:30 p.m. on East 31st Avenue near Ross Street.
Mann, who lived in Surrey, died at the scene, while Sanghera was taken to hospital and died early the next day. He has criminal convictions for theft, mischief, breaching court-ordered conditions and driving while disqualified.
FILE PHOTO Paramedics arrive at Vancouver General Hospital with a victim of a shooting in the area of East 31st Avenue and Inverness Street March 10, 2017.
Vancouver police said both the major crime unit and gang squad are investigating the murders — the city’s fifth and sixth homicides of 2017.
No suspect descriptions have been released and no arrests have been made.
Sanghera, his brother, cousin and uncle were all arrested in 2009 as part of a Vancouver police crackdown on a violent gang war on the city’s south slope.
The shooting happened half a block from Sanghera’s house.
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