After enjoying a picnic with his family, Muhammed Abu Marzouk was beaten senseless in front of his wife and two young daughters.

The vicious attack in the parking lot of Mississauga Valley Community Centre and Library, about a kilometre from Iona Plaza, was sparked by road rage, say Peel police.

It left the 39-year-old Mississauga man with "multiple fractures" to his face and a “huge brain hemorrhage” that forced him to undergo surgery at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, said the victim’s younger brother, Ahmed.

“They had to cut his skull open,” he said." My heart breaks for him and his family."

The incident occurred just before 9:30 p.m. July 15 when Abu Marzouk was leaving the parking lot with his family after a picnic outdoors near the community centre.

He backed out of his parking spot and nearly hit a passing car, said the younger brother.

Abu Marzouk got out of the vehicle and the men attacked him, punching and kicking him repeatedly while his wife, two young daughters, aged six and four, and other family members looked on in horror.

“You don't keep kicking a man when he's down laying in the ground in a pool of his own blood,” said Ahmed. “You don't keep kicking a man's wife trying to cover her husband's head laying on the ground.”

Peel Const. Sarah Patten said police were called to a disturbance in the area that ended up being a violent incident that she said was sparked by road rage.

“It was a fight in a parking lot,” she said. “Two males assaulted a victim.”