Witnesses are giving firsthand accounts of a brazen daylight shooting in a mall parking lot in Surrey that left one person fatally wounded inside a vehicle.

Just before 5:30 p.m. Monday, police were called to the Scott Road Crossing shopping plaza for reports of a shots fired.

In the minutes leading up to the shooting, a witness named Joe and a friend were having a discussion in the carpark.

“We were just sitting there and these guys kept walking around and we felt uncomfortable,” he told CityNews. “What’s this guy doing? He’s on the phone smoking and then I seen what looks like the same guy over here doing the same thing and then I look and there’s another guy, three of them.”

He describes them as clean-cut men, dressed in dark clothing.

“I said to my buddy, ‘Is that guy looking to buy drugs? What’s he doing? He’s up to something, definitely.’”

Shortly after, Joe says he left for his nearby home.

“As soon as I get to my house, I hear ‘bang, bang, bang.’ And I didn’t know what was going on. One of my neighbours witnessed the actual shooting. He was walking across the parking lot when it happened.”

He says it was difficult to discern how many shots were fired.

“It was such a blur. Instead of just one shot it was just like a wall of sound.”

The Surrey Police Service has not confirmed any of those details, only saying when officers arrived, they found a man dying of gunshot wounds inside a vehicle.

“Despite life-saving measures, one man succumbed to his injuries at scene.” said SPS Staff Sergeant Lindsey Houghton.

Within 10 minutes, police also found a burning car near 64 Avenue and Westview Drive in Delta.

Investigators are working to confirm if the vehicle is connected to the shooting.

The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) team has reportedly taken control of the case.

IHIT has yet to to release the identity of the victim or disclose anything about suspects.

More to come.