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Ethnic Defects
Oct 7, 2022, 6:05:03 AM10/7/22
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The suspect in the kidnapping and killings
of an 8-month-old baby, her parents and an uncle had worked for
the family’s trucking business and had a longstanding feud with
them that culminated in an act of “pure evil,” a sheriff said
Thursday.
The bodies of Aroohi Dheri; her mother Jasleen Kaur, 27; father
Jasdeep Singh, 36; and uncle Amandeep Singh, 39, were found by a
farm worker late Wednesday in an almond orchard in a remote area
in the San Joaquin Valley, California’s agricultural heartland.
Investigators were preparing a case against the suspect — a
convicted felon who tried to kill himself a day after the
kidnappings — and sought a person of interest believed to be his
accomplice. Relatives and fellow members of the Punjabi Sikh
community, meanwhile, were shocked by the killings.
“Right now, I’ve got hundreds of people in a community that are
grieving the loss of two families, and this is worldwide. These
families are across different continents,” Merced County Sheriff
Vern Warnke told The Associated Press. “We’ve got to show them
that we can give them justice.”
The suspect, 48-year-old Jesus Salgado, was released from the
hospital and booked into the county jail Thursday night on
suspicion of kidnapping and murder, the Sheriff’s Office said.
It wasn’t clear if he had a lawyer who could speak on his behalf.
Earlier, Warnke called for prosecutors to seek the death
penalty. The sheriff called it one of the worst crimes he has
seen over his 43 years in law enforcement and pleaded for
Salgado’s accomplice to turn himself in.
“There’s some things you’ll take to the grave. This to me was
pure evil,” he said in an interview Thursday.
The city of Merced, where the family’s trucking business was
located, will hold evening vigils in their memory Thursday
through Sunday. The victims’ bodies were found near the town of
Dos Palos, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) south of Merced.
Warnke on Thursday would not discuss the condition of the
adults’ remains in the orchard but said it was unclear how the
baby died. Warnke said the child had no visible trauma and an
autopsy will be conducted.
Salgado was previously convicted of first-degree robbery with
the use of a firearm in Merced County, attempted false
imprisonment and an attempt to prevent or dissuade a victim or
witness. Sentenced to 11 years in state prison in that case, he
was released in 2015 and discharged from parole three years
later, according to the California Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation. He also has a conviction for possession of a
controlled substance, the department said.
Relatives of Salgado contacted authorities and told them he had
admitted to them his involvement in the kidnapping, Warnke told
KFSN-TV on Tuesday. Salgado tried to take his own life before
police arrived at a home in Atwater — where an ATM card
belonging to one of the victims was used after the kidnapping —
about 9 miles (14 kilometers) north of Merced. Efforts to reach
Salgado’s family were unsuccessful Thursday.
The victims were Punjabi Sikhs, a community in central
California that has a significant presence in the trucking
business with many of them driving trucks, owning trucking
companies or other businesses associated with trucking.
Public records show the family owns Unison Trucking Inc. and
relatives said they had opened an office in the last few weeks
in a parking lot the Singh brothers also operated. The feud with
Salgado dated back a year, the sheriff said, and “got pretty
nasty” in text messages or emails. Other details about Salgado’s
employment and the nature of the dispute were not immediately
available.
Warnke said he believes the family was killed within an hour of
the Monday morning kidnapping, when they were taken at gunpoint
from their business.
Surveillance video showed the suspect — later identified as
Salgado — leading the Singh brothers, who had their hands zip-
tied behind their backs, into the back seat of Amandeep Singh’s
pickup truck. He drove the brothers away and returned several
minutes later.
The suspect then went back to the trailer that served as the
business office and led Jasleen Kaur, who was carrying her baby
in her arms, out and into the truck before the suspect drove
them away shortly before 9:30 a.m.
Hours later, firefighters on Monday found Amandeep Singh’s truck
on fire in the town of Winton, 10 miles (16 kilometers) north of
Merced. Police officers went to Amandeep Singh’s home, where a
family member tried to reach him and the couple. When they were
not able to reach their family members, they called the
sheriff’s to report them missing.
They were likely already dead.
https://apnews.com/article/california-san-francisco-kidnapping-
merced-809a28df17288a8d7e60812ec40cbc35
03a8f2...@googlegroups.com>
governo...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Obama and Biden let the killer into the USA.
>
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The suspect in the kidnapping and killings
of an 8-month-old baby, her parents and an uncle had worked for
the family’s trucking business and had a longstanding feud with
them that culminated in an act of “pure evil,” a sheriff said
Thursday.
The bodies of Aroohi Dheri; her mother Jasleen Kaur, 27; father
Jasdeep Singh, 36; and uncle Amandeep Singh, 39, were found by a
farm worker late Wednesday in an almond orchard in a remote area
in the San Joaquin Valley, California’s agricultural heartland.
Investigators were preparing a case against the suspect — a
convicted felon who tried to kill himself a day after the
kidnappings — and sought a person of interest believed to be his
accomplice. Relatives and fellow members of the Punjabi Sikh
community, meanwhile, were shocked by the killings.
“Right now, I’ve got hundreds of people in a community that are
grieving the loss of two families, and this is worldwide. These
families are across different continents,” Merced County Sheriff
Vern Warnke told The Associated Press. “We’ve got to show them
that we can give them justice.”
The suspect, 48-year-old Jesus Salgado, was released from the
hospital and booked into the county jail Thursday night on
suspicion of kidnapping and murder, the Sheriff’s Office said.
It wasn’t clear if he had a lawyer who could speak on his behalf.
Earlier, Warnke called for prosecutors to seek the death
penalty. The sheriff called it one of the worst crimes he has
seen over his 43 years in law enforcement and pleaded for
Salgado’s accomplice to turn himself in.
“There’s some things you’ll take to the grave. This to me was
pure evil,” he said in an interview Thursday.
The city of Merced, where the family’s trucking business was
located, will hold evening vigils in their memory Thursday
through Sunday. The victims’ bodies were found near the town of
Dos Palos, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) south of Merced.
Warnke on Thursday would not discuss the condition of the
adults’ remains in the orchard but said it was unclear how the
baby died. Warnke said the child had no visible trauma and an
autopsy will be conducted.
Salgado was previously convicted of first-degree robbery with
the use of a firearm in Merced County, attempted false
imprisonment and an attempt to prevent or dissuade a victim or
witness. Sentenced to 11 years in state prison in that case, he
was released in 2015 and discharged from parole three years
later, according to the California Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation. He also has a conviction for possession of a
controlled substance, the department said.
Relatives of Salgado contacted authorities and told them he had
admitted to them his involvement in the kidnapping, Warnke told
KFSN-TV on Tuesday. Salgado tried to take his own life before
police arrived at a home in Atwater — where an ATM card
belonging to one of the victims was used after the kidnapping —
about 9 miles (14 kilometers) north of Merced. Efforts to reach
Salgado’s family were unsuccessful Thursday.
The victims were Punjabi Sikhs, a community in central
California that has a significant presence in the trucking
business with many of them driving trucks, owning trucking
companies or other businesses associated with trucking.
Public records show the family owns Unison Trucking Inc. and
relatives said they had opened an office in the last few weeks
in a parking lot the Singh brothers also operated. The feud with
Salgado dated back a year, the sheriff said, and “got pretty
nasty” in text messages or emails. Other details about Salgado’s
employment and the nature of the dispute were not immediately
available.
Warnke said he believes the family was killed within an hour of
the Monday morning kidnapping, when they were taken at gunpoint
from their business.
Surveillance video showed the suspect — later identified as
Salgado — leading the Singh brothers, who had their hands zip-
tied behind their backs, into the back seat of Amandeep Singh’s
pickup truck. He drove the brothers away and returned several
minutes later.
The suspect then went back to the trailer that served as the
business office and led Jasleen Kaur, who was carrying her baby
in her arms, out and into the truck before the suspect drove
them away shortly before 9:30 a.m.
Hours later, firefighters on Monday found Amandeep Singh’s truck
on fire in the town of Winton, 10 miles (16 kilometers) north of
Merced. Police officers went to Amandeep Singh’s home, where a
family member tried to reach him and the couple. When they were
not able to reach their family members, they called the
sheriff’s to report them missing.
They were likely already dead.
https://apnews.com/article/california-san-francisco-kidnapping-
merced-809a28df17288a8d7e60812ec40cbc35
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