The provincial police of Ottawa has recently stated that the Sikh family from India who was targeted last month in a shooting spree in the Canadian province of Ontario that killed one person was possibly a case of mistaken identity.
Jagtar Singh (57) was killed while his wife Harbhajan Kaur (55) and their daughter were critically injured during a shooting on Mayfield Road near Airport Road, along the Caledon-Brampton border, on November 21.
Officers from the Ontario Provincial Police and paramedics upon arrival found Jagtar Singh dead on the scene, and rushed Kaur and their daughter to hospital with life-threatening injuries.
OPP Detective Inspector Brian McDermott stated that officers are investigating “all aspects of this homicide, including whether or not the victims of this crime were intended targets or not.”
“It is still too early to make any firm determinations on that aspect.”
According to the source close to the victims who spoke on condition of anonymity, the family wants to make it clear that they weren’t involved in anything that might have led to the November 20 shooting in the home they were renting.
Describing them as “innocent” and ordinary people, the source stated the victims didn’t have any ties to criminal activity and had no connection to an illegal trucking operation at the same address, which recently been shut down by the Town of Caledon.
The source stated that the man and his wife were visiting family from India when they were shot.
The source stated, the family believes the attackers who stormed into the home that night were looking for someone else. They said, “They mistakenly shot this family thinking it was (that person’s) family.”
Investigators have not said whether the shooting was linked to the business.
The source stated that the family wasn’t connected to the business and was simply renting the upper part of the house. The basement unit was also being rented out.
“This was a normal family,” a representative of Gurudwara Jot Parkash Sahib, a Sikh place of worship in Brampton, stated days after the shooting.
The Gurudwara representative added, “Everyone is shocked.”
