Food delivery driver was lured to Mississauga property before deadly carjacking, police say
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Police say a 24-year-old international student who was delivering food in Mississauga earlier this month was lured by suspects to the site where he was violently attacked in a deadly carjacking.
Police say a 24-year-old international student who was delivering food in Mississauga earlier this month was lured by suspects to the site where he was violently attacked in a deadly carjacking.
In an update Friday, Insp. Phil King of Peel Regional Police’s Homicide Bureau said Gurvinder Nath was called to an address on Emerson Lane, near Britannia and Creditview roads, at around 2:10 a.m. on July 9 for a pizza delivery.
“Investigators do believe that there are multiple suspects involved and that the food order was placed as a means of luring the driver to this specific area,” King said, adding that investigators have obtained an audio recording of the Pizza Pizza order placed before the attack.
After Nath arrived, he was “violently assaulted” and left critically injured by a suspect who robbed him of his vehicle and fled the scene, police said. Multiple witnesses came to his aid and called for help before Nath was rushed to a trauma centre where he was pronounced dead on July 14.
King said despite the infancy of the investigation, police believe Nath was an innocent victim.
Nath’s vehicle was found abandoned in the hours following the attack in the area of Old Creditview and Old Derry roads -- less than five kilometres from the crime scene, King said.
“The working theory is that perhaps there may have been extensive injuries [to Nath] that may not have been anticipated and that may have caused [the suspects] to get rid of the vehicle early,” he said.
