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One person is dead after a shooting Tuesday afternoon in the 6900-block of Fraser Street in Vancouver.
A south vancouver mother watched in horror as gunmen entered her suite and pointed a gun at her son.
Mabel Mohammed said the gunmen were asking for someone named Azim who she does not know.
She told them they had the wrong house and her son wrestled for the gun, shooting one of the assailants dead.
Her son Aleem, 19, who was wounded, is with police and she is desperate for information, she said.
"We are in danger. They came to the wrong house," she said.
The body is currently draped under a white sheet as police begin their investigation.
One neighbour, peering out her window, said she could see police cars and yellow caution tape around 54 Avenue and Fraser Street. The neighbour said roads and back alleys in the area were closed to traffic.
People inside the Ebenezer Baptist Church, which is located near the incident, were asked by police shortly after the shooting to stay inside and not venture out.
Parents were leaving work early to pick up their children from the Sunset Montessori Children's House, located near the shooting. No one at the child care centre was injured, but worried parents were racing there to gather up their children.
The shooting comes on the same day that Peter Van Loan, the federal Minister of Public Safety, said that Vancouver is Canada's centre of gang activity. It follows a rash of other shootings and gangland hits across Metro Vancouver.
On Monday, 23-year-old Nicole Marie Alemy of White Rock was shot and killed while driving in Surrey. Her four-year-old son was in the back seat and survived.
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