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While Maple Leafs superstar Mitch Marner has been on the receiving end of some rough play on the ice, this is a whole new level of disgusting.
The all-star playmaker, who wears No. 16 with the blue and white, was the victim of a carjacking at gunpoint on Monday night.
“It happened at the Cineplex theater on the Queensway,” said a police source.
Toronto Police tweeted about a carjacking at The Queensway and Islington Ave at 7:46 pm, saying a man was robbed of a Black Range Rover by three suspects with the use of two handguns as well as a knife.
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Const. David Hopkinson said “the suspects have fled in the Range Rover.”
Toronto Police sources say all eyes are on the road looking for these armed and dangerous suspects.
Meanwhile, there was great concern about the wellbeing and safety of Marner.
“He’s doing all right,” said a source who was on the scene.
Police sources say Marner was shaken up but not physically hurt in the disturbing incident, just 48 hours after the team was eliminated from the NHL playoffs.
Carjackings and muggings have been on the rise in recent times, as have car thefts. And the thieves have become extremely violent in their fleeing of the vehicles.
Just last month, I wrote of a 17-year-old girl who had a gun placed to her neck in Lytton Park in which the carjacker said, “give me the keys,” as he forced her to the ground.
Like with Marner, the suspects fled — in that instance in a 2021 white Mercedes Benz GLC 300.
“It’s horrifying and terrifying,” said Insp. Rich Harris of the Toronto Police hold-up squad.
Marner is not the first celebrity who has been victimized by this scourge that has been plaguing Toronto. Just last month, two men were convicted in the shooting murder of TSN personality Jonny Gayle, who was shot after the suspects attempted to take control of his car from him.