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Homicide detectives have identified the victim of a targeted shooting in North Vancouver on Tuesday as 32-year-old Ngoc Mai (Anita) Nguyen.

The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team is also asking for help to find the shooter.

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Shortly before 11 a.m. North Van RCMP responded to a report of shots fired in the 1100-block of Lonsdale Avenue. First responders arrived to find Nguyen with gunshot wounds. Nguyen, a single mother to a three-year-old daughter, was taken to hospital where she was placed on life support with “non-survivable injuries,” according to IHIT.

News of the shooting came as a shock to Nguyen’s longtime friend Diana Paredes.

“I grew up with Anita and she was doing so well. I can’t believe this happened … she was in such a good place,” said Paredes, who attended East Vancouver’s Thunderbird Elementary School with Nguyen. “I tried calling her today because I heard the rumours … and when she didn’t answer, I knew she was gone.”