Police named 24-year-old Lionel Yisheng Tan as the man shot dead in front of a gas station in southwest Vancouver on Monday night.
Tan was known to police and it appears to have been a targeted shooting related to drug activity, but police said this had not been confirmed.
His body could be seen lying on the pavement next to a silver BMW in front of a Husky gas station and convenience store on 70th Avenue near SW Marine Drive.
Witnesses reported up to 12 shots being fired in rapid succession at around 9:30 p.m. followed by a woman's screams.
Yisheng is Vancouver's 12th murder of 2009.
Almost 50 people have now been shot since the beginning of January in the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley, and 20 have died.
