PROVIDENCE — One man was killed in a parked car early yesterday, while a second man was wounded in a separate shooting in what the police suspect is the latest volley in an ongoing feud between rival street gangs.

Police Maj. Stephen Campbell said the murder victim, Luis Abreu, was fatally shot as he sat in the driver’s seat of his black BMW sedan outside his first-floor apartment at 282 Ohio Ave., in the city’s Washington Park neighborhood. The police say they do not believe Abreu’s killing was gang-related.

The shooting took place about 12:15 a.m. and Abreu was pronounced dead at the scene. He is the 10th person killed in the city this year.

Campbell said that the police do not suspect that Abreu’s murder was linked to the shooting of Nirut “Shorty” Seng, 21, of 45 Hanover St., in the city’s West End. Seng, who the police described as a leader in the Young Bloods street gang, was shot in the left side of the buttocks about 30 minutes after Abreu was killed.

The police say that he was sprayed with gunfire by a passing car as he climbed the front steps of his apartment building. Seng’s girlfriend, Karen Maloney, and his sister, Chavy Seng, told the police that they were in the apartment and heard “three or four gunshots,” but that they did not see anything. Investigators found three shell casings at the scene.

Seng, who was taken by rescue to Rhode Island Hospital, has refused to cooperate with detectives and he declined to file a complaint with the Police Department.

The scenes of the shootings are about two miles apart. No arrests have been made in either case.

Detective Sgt. Michael P. Wheeler, who heads the Providence Police Gang Unit, is very familiar with Seng and the ongoing feud between the Young Bloods and the Hanover Street Boyz.

The police gang unit has been monitoring the actions of both groups for months.

Both gangs are comprised of Asian, Hispanic, white and black youths who live primarily in the city’s West End and in Cranston.

Last Friday, at about 2 a.m., the police responded to 74 Hanover St. for a report of shots fired. The police gang unit learned that a member of the Young Bloods had moved into that address last month.

On Sept. 8, Seng was arrested after the police spotted him on the porch of 45 Hanover St. at 12:30 a.m. holding what appeared to be a sawed-off shotgun. Members of the gang unit, who were in an unmarked police car, bounded up the stairs of the address and handcuffed Seng. They found a loaded 12-gauge Mossberg shotgun with what appeared to be a sawed-off barrel. The police also seized a loaded Maverick pistol from beneath a couch cushion.

Campbell said the charges were dismissed in District Court at the request of the Police Department after investigators determined that the shotgun was longer than the maximum length of a sawed-off shotgun. Upon further investigation, police also determined that Seng did not have a felony conviction and it was within his rights to have the shotgun and the pistol.

The Providence police remain in possession of both weapons, but Campbell said that Seng could petition the department for both weapons and he would probably be allowed to retrieve them.

Seng’s address has been the site of multiple shootings this year. On Jan. 28, officers went to his 45 Hanover St. apartment for a report of shots fired. That same day, Vicheth Klakratok, a Young Bloods gang member was beaten and murdered near the corner of Cranston and Benedict streets. Five members of the Hanover Street Boyz have been charged with Klakratok’s murder and they are awaiting trial.

In August, there was an escalation of shootings in the city — 20 overall — and the police said that gang violence was responsible for many of the shootings. One of them occurred at 45 Hanover St. The police said that someone with a BB gun shot Jose Lopez, 18, in the chest.

bmalinow@projo.com