Two men have been arrested after the horrific kidnapping and murder of four family members, their last moments captured on CCTV.
corpses of baby Arohi Dhari, 8 months; her mother, Jacqueline Kaur, 27; Father Jasdeep Singh, 36; A farm worker found his uncle, Amandeep Singh, 39, late Wednesday in an almond grove in a remote area of California’s San Joaquin Valley.
The discovery shocked society and around the world, with Sharif describing the killings as “pure evil”.
The family ran a trucking business in Merced, a two-hour drive east of San Jose, where one of the suspects, Jesus Salgado, used to work.
Surveillance video from outside the company on Monday showed Salgado driving the Singh brothers – with their hands tied behind their backs – in the back seat of Amandeep Singh’s pickup truck.
He drove the two brothers away and returned to the office a few minutes later to drive Jaclyn Core to the truck. She was holding her baby in her arms.
The last sighting of surviving family members was recorded before 9:30 AM.
Hours later, firefighters found Amandeep’s truck burning in the town of Winton, 16 kilometers north of Merced.
Police officers went to Amandeep’s house, where a family member tried to reach him and the couple. When they could not reach their family members, they called the sheriff of police to report them missing.
It is possible that they are already dead.
Fern Warnick, Merced County Sheriff, said he believed the family was killed within an hour of the kidnapping.
The suspect’s brother was allegedly involved
On Thursday evening (local time), Salgado’s brother was arrested in connection with the crime.
Alberto Salgado, 41, has been detained on charges of criminal conspiracy, collusion, and destruction of evidence.
Prior to his arrest on Tuesday, Jesus Salgado attempted suicide and remained under medical care for two nights before being booked into the county jail.
The sheriff said Jesus Salgado worked for the family’s trucking company and is said to have had a long feud with them dating back a year.
It has become “too bad” in text messages or emails. Further details about Salgado’s employment and the nature of the dispute were not immediately available.
GoFundMe raises nearly $200,000
Relatives and members of the Punjab Sikh community were shocked by the killings.
“Right now, I have hundreds of people in a community grieving the loss of two families, and this is something all over the world. These families are across different continents,” said Mr. Warnick.
“We have to show them that we can give them justice.”
The GoFundMe page was set up to help surviving family members, including Amandeep’s children, and raised US$125,500 (AU$197,129) in just one day.
Earlier, Mr. Warnick called on prosecutors to demand the death penalty. Al-Sharif called it one of the worst crimes he had witnessed in his 43 years in law enforcement.
“There are some things that you will take to the grave. This to me was pure evil,” he said in an interview on Thursday.
He declined to discuss the state of the adult remains in Al Bustan but said it was not clear how the child died. He said the child was not clearly traumatized and an autopsy would be performed.
– With The Associated Press
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Originally published at San Jose News Bulletin
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