An 18-year-old woman is in critical condition after being shot in the face outside a popular 24-hour restaurant in Mississauga early Friday morning, police say.

Just before 1 a.m., Peel Regional Police were called to Zet’s Restaurant on Airport Rd., near Pearson airport, and found the young woman suffering from gunshot wounds. She had been shot while sitting in the driver’s seat of her vehicle in the restaurant parking lot, police say, and was rushed to hospital in what paramedics describe as critical, but not life-threatening condition. Another woman was in the car at the time of the shooting, but was unharmed.

The victim was allegedly involved in a verbal altercation inside the restaurant shortly before the shooting. As she was sitting in her car outside afterwards, another vehicle approached, and someone fired upon her from within the second vehicle. The assailants, believed to be the two men she had argued with earlier, then fled the scene in their vehicle.

Police are looking for two suspects, both described as men in their 20s. One was last seen wearing a black Nike hoodie and blue jeans, and the other had a black zip-up hoodie, a white t-shirt and blue jeans.

The restaurant was open at the time. No one else was harmed, but police say there were numerous witnesses in the area and that they are cooperating in the investigation. Police are asking anyone who was in the area at the time of the shooting to contact them.

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