Vancouver-area shootings RCMP towed the victims' vehicle from the station, which was spattered with blood and littered with glass

The spate of Vancouver-area shootings continued Tuesday night, with two more incidents bringing the two-day total to seven.One east Vancouver man was sent to hospital after shots from outside his house hit him in bed at 2 a.m. in what police call a targeted shooting.Several hours earlier, two men were shot at a gas station in suburban Surrey next to a busy mall at about 7 p.m. Wednesday. One man was shot in the head and another in the leg. Both were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, say Surrey RCMP.One man was pumping gas while the other was sitting in a red Chevy Malibu at a Chevron station when a man approached the Chevy and opened fire.Witnesses say a man was seen running to a beige getaway car. RCMP had the area cordoned off as they searched for a suspect described as a non-white male.The shooting occurred next to the Strawberry Hill mall."It's terrifying," said Renee Gaill, who was shopping next to the station. "It's scary to go out. This is a busy shopping mall, so it just goes to show these shootings can happen anywhere."
People in the mall were stunned by the shooting."I heard gunshots, four or five crackers," said Tariq, who didn't want to give his last name. "This is really scary down here. A lot of citizens come here every night to the Tim Hortons and the movie theatres. It's unbelievable what has happened. Now we're all scared."The RCMP towed the victims' vehicle from the station, which was spattered with blood and littered with glass.On Tuesday, police tried to reassure the public that the streets are safe.But the latest incidents seem to undermine the PR coup police had hoped for after Solicitor General John van Dongen stood proudly beside eight high-ranking officers at a news conference to declare the arrest of UN gang boss Barzan Tilli-Choli had made B.C. a safer place."The timing is odd," conceded Cpl. Dale Carr of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team, the point man for many of the 28 Lower Mainland shootings since Jan. 20. "We still believe that with Mr. Tilli-Choli in jail, the streets are safer. He was a brazen individual, and he had total disregard for public safety."Sgt. Shinder Kirk of the B.C. Integrated Gang Task Force said there's no way to know if the police show of force was connected to the swift return to violence in the streets."Violence can erupt for any reason," Kirk said. "It can be for things that the group is involved in, over disputes over turf — not in terms of land but market share for the drug trade."