Wanzhen Lu, 22, was kidnapped by armed men Saturday near Toronto. He's pictured on the day of his disappearance
Canadian police are searching for a Chinese student who was kidnapped by an armed gang in the parking lot of his secure access condo building.
The ambush of Wanzhen Lu took place around 6pm Saturday and law enforcement said the 22-year-old was tasered by a masked man several times after exiting his black Land Rover Range Rover at 15 Water Walk Dr, Markham with a woman who escaped unharmed.
Security footage obtained by investigators showed the man appeared to be taken against his will by three men who used excessive violence before stuffing him into a black 2008 to 2010 Dodge Caravan with a 'CEAR350' plate stolen from the Peel Region earlier this month.
The woman Lu was accompanied by was said to be 'traumatized' by the attack.
She was not physically harmed during the 'very violent attack' and notified security in the building, accessed using a fob key, about the incident immediately.
'The attack was very brazen, violent and hands on. They took him, threw him into the vehicle and then left,' Constable Andy Pattenden from York Regional Police told reporters Monday. 'It was a violent altercation and we need to find him right now.'
Law enforcement officers said Lu had driven expensive vehicles including a Rolls Royce and a Lamborghini and surveillance footage from the underground parking garage led them to believe Lu was '100 percent taken against his will'.
The foreign student was stunned with a Taser (left) multiple times around 6pm by a masked man
The Chinese national was subjected to violence after exiting his car in a Markham parking garage. Pictured is a suspect with 'dark skin, 6'1', wearing black Canada Goose jacket'
While there was speculation he may have been taken in exchange for ransom money, authorities said the kidnappers had not yet made contact.
The building Lu lives in near Highway 7 and Birchmount Road sells one-bedroom apartments for $479,900.
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