A 23-year-old fourth-year Chinese student at the University of Toronto-Scarborough (UTSC) was held at gunpoint for more than an hour when the victim was held at gunpoint and shot.
This time, the victim Wang is a Chinese student who came to Canada 6 years ago and is currently in his fourth year at the University of Toronto, Scarborough.
Wang said that this is the third time he has been a victim of a carjacking, and one of them was robbed of a car at a gas station, and when he came out of the gas station, his car was missing.
Wang said he was robbed in parking lot A on the UTSC campus when a man wearing a safety vest, a mask and sunglasses approached him.
图：UTSC的A 停车场位于Military Trail。
Wang said the man asked for his new LV bag and then pointed a gun at him and forced him to sit in the driver's seat of his 2022 BMW X3, which Wang had owned for two years.
Wang said the suspect got into the car, sat behind him and pointed a gun at his ribs and then his thigh.
Wang drove the car to a quiet parking lot on campus, and the suspect forcibly pushed Wang into the passenger seat and sat in the driver's seat.
According to Wang, this began the driving for more than an hour, during which the suspect tried to search for Wang's mobile phone, which was hidden in the pocket of his jacket, so it was unsuccessful, and the suspect threatened to kill him if he called the police.
The car then drove to the Oakridge neighborhood near Warden and Danforth Avenues, where the suspect again pulled out a gun and pointed it at Xiao Wang.
Wang said he was worried that he would be shot this time.
"When you see someone pulling out a gun, you want to run away,"
Wang said he opened the door of the slow-moving car.
It was then that Wang said the suspect had opened fire, but it had not hit him.
Wang jumped out of the car and fell into the road in a quiet community.
The suspect fled in a car.
Wang called the police, and Toronto police confirmed that they received a call to the police about the shooting and carjacking around 1:29 p.m. on Wednesday, and said the victim was not injured.
Wang said the BMW was later found by Toronto police and the case is currently under investigation. But the suspects snatched two LV bags, two golf bags, a necklace, several rings and a watch that was more expensive than a car, which Wang estimated to be worth between $150,000 and $200,000.
The Greater Toronto Area has seen frequent robberies this year, with carjackings more than doubling in 2024 and a 206% increase in violent carjackings and burglaries across the province between 2021 and 2023.
Ontario police said 125 of the 417 carjackings in the Greater Toronto Area in 2023 involved firearms.
Just this week, York borough police north of Toronto charged a 17-year-old boy with stealing a car in Richmond Hill when he was carrying at least one firearm.
Police said that the majority of people arrested for carjackings in Toronto last year were minors, a new and alarming trend that is starting to emerge in 2023.
Wang estimated that he was about 30 to 40 years old in this robbery.
A spokesperson for the University of Toronto said, "The Campus Security Team is cooperating with the Toronto Police investigation. The spokesperson said staff monitors all campus parking lots around the clock through patrols and security cameras.
Wang said this was not the Canada he expected when he came to Toronto six years ago.
Wang said he was considering moving back to Shanghai and was "disappointed" with the country where he is now a PR permanent resident.
It is said that every time Xiao Wang closes his eyes, he hears gunshots and is a little scared to come to campus again.
Wang said he knew the chances of a similar incident happening again were low, but he was scared that it would, and he was worried that he wouldn't be so lucky next time.