Police are asking for the public’s help in tracking down a vehicle following a shooting that left two people dead in a Scarborough parking lot last Friday night.

Cynthia Mullapudi, 24, and 26-year-old Joseph Anzolona were fatally shot while inside a parked vehicle after making a brief stop at an LCBO near Ellesmere Road and Victoria Park Avenue shortly before 10 p.m.

At a press conference Friday morning, Toronto police Sgt. Gary Giroux said that investigators have identified a suspect vehicle sought in connection with the case.

“A citizen photographed the suspect’s car in the parking lot of the LCBO as it was leaving,” he said.

Giroux described how a second witness repeated the licence plate over and over aloud until he was able to write it down in his cellphone.

“(It) was quite remarkable,” he said. “I’m very grateful.”

Investigators are searching for a 2006, grey, four-door Ford Fusion with the licence plate BYYW 755.

“This is the car that was used on that particular evening” Giroux said. “The offender was firing at the two (victims) and ran to this car and got inside. (The car) has huge, significant investigative value and we would like to recover (it) as quickly as possible.”

The vehicle, Giroux said, is registered to 24-year-old Julianna Talevski. She has a connection with a suspect arrested in connection with the shooting last week.

Giroux said it is still not clear if Talevski, who has spoken with a lawyer, was driving the vehicle at the time the shooting took place, but that efforts to determine her whereabouts at the time have been unsuccessful.

“If the community recognizes Ms. Talevski’s picture, in relation to where she lives or where she might park this particular vehicle, I encourage them to call the homicide squad directly,” he said.

Though police have not released a motive in the case, they have said that Anzolona was likely targeted and that Mullapudi may have been caught by stray bullets fired from the semi-automatic pistol used in the shooting.

On Friday, Grioux said that Mullapudi had just met Anzolona and the other man in the vehicle at the time of the shooting that evening through her female friend, was also in the vehicle when the shooting occurred.

“They picked her up to attend a party, and within an hour or so of being picked up she was deceased,” he said.

Anzolona, he said, had “a history with police.”

The suspected gunman, 24-year-old Toronto resident Harris Nnanem, was arrested Sunday night and charged with two counts of first-degree murder.

Anyone with information is asked to contact police 416-808-7400 or Crime Stoppers.