Mob-Style Killing Worries Police

VANCOUVER, B.C. - Police are concerned innocent bystanders could get caught in a crossfire between rival gangs after a mob-style slaying at a busy Vancouver intersection.

Ron Dosanjh was gunned down Tuesday when his pickup truck was overtaken by another vehicle with a back-seat passenger blazing away with a semiautomatic rifle. Stray bullets hit a closed video store and unoccupied cars parked in a nearby strip mall.

Dosanjh, 29, was shot in the head. A passenger was grazed by a bullet.

"We as members of the Vancouver Police Department are outraged that something like this should happen on a busy street, midday, broad daylight," said police Constable Anne Drennan.

Ron Dosanjh, also known as Ranjit Dosanjh, had been the president of the Vancouver branch of the International Sikh Youth Federation, which supports a sovereign Sikh homeland in India.