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Police are investigating what is being described as a "suspicious sudden death" in southeast Vancouver.

Police were called to McIver’s Appliance Sales and Service, near Ontario Street and East 69th Avenue, shortly before 8:30 a.m. Wednesday. John Leslie McIver, 78, was pronounced dead at the scene,

Homicide detective are now investigating, and no arrests have been made.

The suspicious death comes just one day after the city’s fifth homicide of the year. On Tuesday night, police were called to the area of Main Street and East 35th Avenue after reports of a shooting in an apartment building. Officers found a man in his thirties dead from a gunshot wound.

Officers arrested a 30-year-old Vancouver man in that case.