Peel police are hunting a man whom investigators allege brutally murdered a Brampton woman in her home.

Nicholas Anthony Young, 46, of no fixed address, is wanted on a charge of second-degree murder in the death of 30-year-old Hoden Said, the woman found dead Jan. 27 in a basement apartment on Hockley Path, in the area of Kennedy Road and Rutherford Road.

Police were called to the semi-detached home around 7:20 p.m. that night and inside, police said they found Said with “significant signs of trauma.”

Young is described as a black man, five-foot-eight with a stocky build. Police said in a release the accused killer “is also missing a portion, if not all, of his wedding ring finger.”