A 24-year-old Indian pupil, who labored as a meals supply accomplice in Canada, has been killed after he was violently assaulted throughout a lethal carjacking, based on media reviews.

Gurvinder Nath was delivering pizza at round 2:10 am on July 9 in Mississauga’s Britannia and Creditview roads, when unknown suspects confronted him and tried to steal his car, CTV News channel reported.

“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,” Inspector Phil King of Peel Regional Police’s Homicide Bureau stated, including that investigators have obtained an audio recording of the Pizza Pizza order positioned earlier than the assault.

After Nath arrived, he was “violently assaulted” and left critically injured by a suspect who robbed him of his car and fled the scene, police stated.

Multiple witnesses got here to his help and known as for assist earlier than Nath was rushed to a trauma centre the place he was pronounced useless on July 14.

Siddhartha Nath, Consul General of India in Toronto, stated Nath’s dying is a “heartrending loss” and he prolonged his condolences to relations, associates and the broader neighborhood, the CBC reported.

He stated the consulate basic has contacted the household after his dying.

“It was heartening for me to see how the community responded, came together both online and physically to support the family in this time of grief,” the Consul General stated.

“Of course, nothing can make good the loss, but it will be some solace to the grieving family and it’s also a signal of the spirit of the community because it is in times like this when the spirit and the solidarity and the sense of empathy is tested.”

The Consul General stated he hopes the individuals accountable are dropped at justice.

Inspector King stated regardless of the infancy of the investigation, police imagine Nath was an harmless sufferer. Nath’s car was discovered deserted within the hours following the assault within the space of Old Creditview and Old Derry roads — lower than 5 kilometres from the crime scene, King stated.

“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 stated.

The car has since been forensically examined and “several” items of proof have been retrieved, King added.

Police say there isn’t a identified connection between Nath and his attackers.

“I would like to remind those involved that regardless of your level of participation, you are complicit in the murder of Gurvinder Nath and you will be arrested and charged accordingly,” King stated.

Nath’s physique will likely be flown to India on July 27 with the assistance of the Consulate General of India in Toronto, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) reported.

Last week, CTV News Toronto spoke to household and associates of Nath, who stated the Brampton resident was on summer time break earlier than he returned to his remaining semester of enterprise college.

“He was innocent, he was just delivering pizza [when] random people hit him on his head,” Nath’s cousin, Balram Krishan, stated.

Nath arrived in Canada from India in July of 2021 and had plans to open his personal enterprise.

On Saturday, greater than 200 individuals gathered in Mississauga at a candlelight vigil for Nath, the CBC reported.

Speakers on the vigil stated that Nath got here to Canada carrying his household’s hopes and now his household is coping with grief on the lack of one among its three sons.

“You come to Canada with a dream. You start your life. But these people stole a dream,” Bobby Sidhu, a good friend of a relative of Nath, stated.

Sidhu stated: “Canada was known for peace. And I hope that in our country such senseless and merciless crime will come to an end. Everyone could relate to Gurvinder. I think that’s the reason the community has come together.”