Youngstown police are investigating a carjacking and robbery that happened early Thursday morning in the city.

According to the police report, a man and woman were sleeping in the woman's 2008 Trailblazer along with their dog on Salt Springs Road around 1 am Thursday when the man awoke to a man pointing a gun at him. 

The man with the gun told the man to give him whatever he had in his pockets, which was a bank envelope containing approximately $3,000 in cash. 

The man then ordered the driver and the female passenger out of the vehicle and headed northbound on Salt Springs Road.

Police received a call while en route to the carjacking scene about the vehicle in question being involved in an accident at Burlington and Margaret Streets. 

Police found the vehicle abandoned with the dog still inside and are investigating the case.