More than 200 people gathered in Mississauga at a candlelight vigil on Saturday for a Brampton food delivery driver who died after he was critically injured during a violent carjacking.
Gurvinder Nath, 24, an international student, was confronted at a delivery address shortly after 2 a.m. in the area of Creditview Road and Britannia Road West on July 9. His car was stolen and he was left on the side of the road with life-threatening injuries. He died in hospital five days later on July 14. Peel police say he was working for Pizza Pizza at the time.
"You come to Canada with a dream. You start your life. But these people stole a dream," Bobby Sidhu, a friend of a relative of Nath, said. "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."Mississauga Coun. Brad Butt, who represents Ward 11, said Nath's death on "what was just a regular night at work" has shocked the city.
After the speakers, community members lit white candles on a table in front of a large photograph of Nath. Then community members carried the photograph of him through the parking lot and chanted in Punjabi. Nath was from the village of Karimpur Chahwala in Punjab, India.
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