Barrie police are investigating a suspicious car fire in the Painswick neighbourhood of the city. Barrie Fire alerted the police department about the fire in a parking lot on Esther Drive on Thursday morning. A witness who lives nearby told police he heard a loud boom around 4:20 a.m. and noticed large flames and smoke coming from a school parking lot. Police determined that the vehicle, a black four-door 2015 BMW, had been stolen from Brampton earlier in the day. A burned out BMW is seen in a Barrie parking lot after allegedly being stolen from a Brampton driveway and set on fire.