Pritpal Singh Virk was gunned down Saturday

Pritpal Singh Virk was gunned down Saturday, a series of drug charges laid against the Richmond teen had been stayed by federal prosecutors, court records show.
Virk became Vancouver's fourth homicide victim of 2008 when he was shot at close range about 11 p.m. Saturday in the 400-block of East 54th Ave.
The 19-year-old had been visiting friends on the street when he decided to leave. Many in the quiet neighbourhood did not know there had been a shooting until they heard the sirens of responding police cruisers
Virk had been charged last spring after the high-profile drowning of his friend when their rented vehicle plunged into the Nechako River near Vanderhoof. They had just fled an RCMP road check.
Virk was pulled from the river and treated for hypothermia. But the driver, 19-year-old Daljit Singh Sandhu, drowned. Police later found 170 marijuana plants in the recovered Ford Escape and both Virk and a third man were charged.
But according to court documents, all the charges were stayed Jan. 24, 2008.
Friends say Virk was a confident, outgoing person whose mouth could get him into trouble.
Police say the shooting appeared to be a targeted hit.
Meanwhile, a Port Coquitlam man has been identified as the victim of a fatal stabbing in Pitt Meadows last week.
Justin Aaron Yusko, 28, was found wounded in a ditch about 7:45 p.m. Jan. 29 by a passing motorist. He later died of his injuries.
RCMP Cpl. Dale Carr, of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team, said Yusko was a regular drug user.
He had no criminal charges or convictions in B.C., according to a court record search, though he had several speeding tickets in recent years.
"Based on information learned so far, investigators feel that this was not random act," Carr said in a release.