Peel Regional Police homicide investigators spent their Monday at a Mississauga hotel gathering evidence in the shooting death of an aspiring Toronto rapper.

Donald Richard Grant, 27, died in hospital Sunday night after he was shot at the Holiday Inn Express at 5585 Ambler Dr., near Dixie Road and Highway 401.

He is the region's sixth homicide victim of 2010.

Const. Thomas Ruttan, a Peel police spokesperson, said the victim was rushed to a Mississauga hospital shortly before 10 p.m., but died of his injuries a short time later.

Police with dogs from the canine unit searched the area Sunday night, but no arrests have been made.

Ruttan said a suspect was seen leaving the scene, but added police could not provide a description at this point.

Investigators have not recovered the firearm used in the shooting.

A blue Dodge was removed from the hotel parking lot Monday morning and taken to Peel Regional Police's Brampton headquarters.

They also removed boxes of possible evidence from Grant's room.

Investigators do have images captured by the hotel's security cameras, but it isn't clear if the suspect's image was captured -- or whatever happened before the shooting.

As the police investigation at the hotel continued Monday, hotel guests were being asked to show identification in order to enter.

Guests told CTV Toronto they heard nothing at the time of the incident.

Grant billed himself as recording artist Don Kartel on his website. A hip hop scene observer described the rapper as hardworking and talented.

"This is the 4th rapper murdered in Toronto this year and I knew three out of the four," Kemi Omololu-Olunloyo wrote on her blog HipHossip.com.

"One of his last tweets read, 'I have no respect for pistols.' He never supported guns!"

East Toronto stabbing

In a seemingly unrelated incident, a hotel guest was stabbed Monday morning inside the lobby of an east-end Radisson.

Toronto police received a call shortly after 9 a.m. Monday from 55 Hallcrown Place, near Victoria Park Avenue and Highway 401.

Police said the victim, in her late 20s, was stabbed in the leg at about 3 a.m. The injuries are non-life threatening and she had not been taken to hospital.

Police continue to investigate.

With a report from CTV Toronto's Galit Solomon