Peel Regional Police are searching for a suspect wanted in connection with a carjacking in Mississauga this morning.
It happened near Paisley Boulevard and Hurontario Street shortly before 7 a.m.
Police say the 39-year-old driver of a four-door Toyota Corolla was assaulted by an armed suspect, who drove off with the car.
The sister of the driver, who did not want to be named, told CTV Toronto that the vehicle was parked behind the driver’s apartment building when he was attacked.
She said the driver was sitting in his car heating up the vehicle -- as he always did before going to work -- when a man wearing a black scarf over his face approached the car with a gun and told him to exit the vehicle.
When the driver got out of the car, the suspect put a gun to the drivers head before driving off in the vehicle.
The suspect, police say, is described as a male between the ages of 24 and 25 and is approximately five-foot-nine. He was seen wearing track pants, police added.
The stolen vehicle was located after 8 a.m. near a park in the Peel Region, police tweeted.
A resident in the area spotted the silver Toyota Corolla and phoned police.
“We woke up and looked in the backyard as we were getting the kids ready for school, and over there was this silver car all banged up,” said Dave Benedetti, a resident in the area. “My wife went to the news and found out there had been a carjacking in the area and this must have been where the person dropped the vehicle off.”
No injuries were reported.
With files from Tamara Cherry.
