A Sikh couple visiting Canada from India last month was targeted in a shooting spree in the Canadian province of Ontario, which killed one person and was possibly a case of mistaken identity, according to the provincial police.
Jagtar Singh, 57, was killed while his wife Harbhajan Kaur,55, and the couple’s daughter were critically injured in a shooting near Mayfield Road, near Airport Road, along the Caledon-Brampton border on November 2021.
Officers from the provincial police and paramedics arrived on the scene only to find Jagtar Singh dead and rushed Kaur and their daughter to the hospital with critical injuries. Officers are looking into all aspects of this homicide, including whether the victims of the shooter’s crime were intended targets or not.
According to a source who is close to the victim, the family wants to make it clear that they’re not involved in anything that might have led to the shootings on November 20 in the home they were renting.
The source described them as “innocent,” and the victims had no ties to the criminal activity and had no connection to an illegal trucking operation at the address, which the Town of Caledon took down.
The couple’s son and daughter had arrived in Canada as students a few years ago and were the ones who sponsored their parents as visitors. According to the information posted by a family friend on a fundraising platform, more than 30 bullets were shot by the unidentified gunmen when the family was preparing to go to sleep in their rented home in Caledon.
More than 20 bullets were shot into the body of Kaur alone, which completely damaged her uterus, stomach, intestine, leg, kidney, and lungs, Paramvir Singh said on GoFundMe.
Doctors have told Parmvir that even if the doctor manages to survive, she won’t be able to recover for a long time.
