Sunil Mall, 27, was killed in a gang-style hit

Two people have been killed and three more injured in six shootings across the Lower Mainland since Tuesday night, amid a rash of gang slayings that have rocked the area for the last two months.Homicide investigators in Vancouver, Burnaby and Surrey were investigating the attacks on Wednesday, the day after five people linked to the United Nations gang were arrested after a lengthy multi-agency investigation.There have been at least 23 targeted shootings in the Lower Mainland since Jan. 20.
Sunil Mall, 27, was killed in a gang-style hit just before 10 p.m. Tuesday in Vancouver.Insp. Bob Chapman said residents called 911 to report several shots fired. When police arrived at the scene, they saw a silver car with a shattered window, shell casings and blood.
Mr. Mall was inside and slumped at the steering wheel with blood on his face."Right now, it has all the marks of another gangland-style hit," Insp. Chapman said. Insp. Chapman said witnesses saw two men in dark clothing fleeing on foot. Meanwhile, Cpl. Dale Carr, of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team, said it could be a long process to confirm the identity of the woman in her mid-20s gunned down at about 8 p.m. on the 25th floor of a Burnaby apartment, since no photo identification has been located.He said investigators may have to travel to China to prove who she is.
"At this particular point, we have a piece of identification that doesn't provide us a positive identification of the deceased," Cpl. Carr said.A man in his 30s who was also shot remains in hospital in critical condition and unable to be interviewed by police.Cpl. Carr said investigators have a few theories about the double shooting that "range from criminality to domestic, and a few in between."
Based on the man's injuries, however, it's clearly not a murder-attempted suicide, he said.Meanwhile, Surrey investigators were called to four separate shootings that sent two people in hospital for gunshot wounds.In the first shooting at 8:04 p.m., a Somali man, 22, was taken to hospital with a gunshot wound in his buttocks.
RCMP Sgt. Roger Morrow said the victim was known to police and was involved in the illicit drug trade. His condition is listed as critical, but he's expected to survive, said Sgt. Morrow.
The gunman is believed to have fled in a white Infiniti SUV.
The second shooting took place just before midnight, when a series of shots was fired into a residence. No one was reported hurt in the shooting, but Sgt. Morrow said the house is known to police as a "crack shack."Then, at 2:47 a.m. Wednesday, police were called to a Surrey hospital after a second man showed up in the emergency department with a gunshot wound to the leg. The victim is described as a South Asian male, 22, known to police and also involved in the drug trade. On Wednesday evening, police were investigating a shooting at a gas station in a busy shopping centre.