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Police initially said the man was stabbed, but聽, said that he wasn’t stabbed and that his injuries came from being hit with a hard object.

The thieves fled the scene without the vehicle, police added.聽

The victim is a man in his 60s, investigators told the Star. He was taken to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries, paramedics said.

Paramedics said they also assessed a second patient in the incident with minor injuries. That person declined to be taken to hospital.聽

The injured man’s family, who did not want to be identified out of concern for their safety, spoke to reporters on Tuesday. The man’s son told reporters that his father was struck with a metal object as two suspects attempted to steal the family’s newer model Honda CRV. His mother was also pushed, he said.

鈥淭hey tried taking the car but my dad was brave enough to stop the guy,鈥� he said聽of the white Honda parked on the driveway outside the home.

He said the car was on and a suspect was already inside when his dad went outside.

鈥淢y dad opened the door and pulled him out,鈥� he said, adding that’s when his father started being hit with the metal object. The son rushed outside and chased the suspects away.

The man’s wife said that she went to get the key for the car to press the alarm to scare off the thieves, but it didn’t work. She later learned that the thieves had disabled the alarm system.

Maddy Hanson, who lives immediately next door, said she heard yelling outside her home at around 3:30 a.m.

Hours later, she found out that someone had tried to steal her neighbour’s car.

鈥淚t鈥檚 nerve wracking,鈥� she said of the brazen attempted theft.

There were recent reports of another vehicle being stolen in the neighbourhood, she said, 鈥渟o it鈥檚 definitely unsettling.鈥�

鈥淟uckily they鈥檙e OK,鈥� Hanson said of her neighbours.聽