San Francisco: The grieving spouse and children of the 4 Indian-foundation Sikhs killed withinside the US have raised greater than USD 300,000 (Rs 2,47,30,770) to assist their households in California however additionally their aged dad and mom returned in India.
The Sikh own circle of relatives of 4, 8-month-vintage Aroohi Dheri, her 27-year-vintage mom Jasleen Kaur, her 36-year-vintage father Jasdeep Singh, and her 39-year-vintage uncle Amandeep Singh have been abducted and killed via way of means of a former worker in their trucking organization ultimate week.
A GoFundMe fundraiser is amassing budget for the Singhs’ prolonged own circle of relatives and has raised greater than USD 300,000, in step with abc7news.com.
Jaspreet Kaur, Amandeep’s widow, stated withinside the fundraiser that her husband and his brother have been withinside the United States for 18 years and supported now no longer simplest their households in California however additionally their aged dad and mom returned in India.
“This is the tale of our shared American dream long gone wrong,” she wrote. “Our loving own circle of relatives become violently taken farfar from us on October 3rd,” the own circle of relatives’s GoFundMe web page stated.
The budget could pass in the direction of assisting Aroohi’s grandparents and the own circle of relatives of Amandeep Singh, his spouse Jaspreet Kaur, and their kids, each below the age of 10.
The own circle of relatives, at the beginning from Harsi Pind in Hoshiarpur, Punjab, become abducted at a commercial enterprise in Merced County, California, on October 3.
The our bodies of all 4 have been determined days afterward October 5. A 4-day vigil discovered for the sufferers in Merced ended on Sunday.
Jesus Salgado, the person worried withinside the kidnapping and killing become arrested on October 6.
On Friday Salgado’s more youthful brother, Alberto Salgado, become arrested on prices of crook conspiracy and destroying proof.
Investigators are nonetheless looking to decide a motive, however Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke stated he believes it may relate to money, including there has been no proof to signify the incident might also additionally had been a hate crime.
Salgado become a former worker of the own circle of relatives who had a longstanding dispute with them that “were given quite nasty,” government stated.