Chilling surveillance footage shows the moment a Sikh family was abducted at gunpoint. The four members of the family living in California’s Merced were killed by the kidnappers afterward. The authorities released the horrifying footage showing a masked person taking Amandeep Singh and Jasdeep Singh at gunpoint. The hands of Amandeep (39) and Jasdeep (36) were tied. After a few seconds, Jasleen Kaur (27), Jasdeep’s wife, and their child Aroohi who was just eight months old were taken into a truck.
The Incident
The family was kidnapped on Monday, and the officials recovered their bodies on Thursday near Hutchinson Road and Indiana Road. The officials said a farm worker found the bodies near an orchard and informed the authorities. The suspect Jesus Manuel Salgado (48) was arrested and tried to kill himself inside the custody. He is currently undergoing treatment, and the investigators will talk to him as he becomes stable.
The Investigation
The Sikh family was abducted from a building where their trucking company was. But family members confirmed that nothing from the company was stolen. The kidnapped persons were wearing jewelry. A debit card that belonged to a member of the kidnapped family was used after the abduction. The ATM card was used in the city of Atwater in Merced’s north.
The family is from Punjab’s Hoshiarpur and has lived in Merced since they recently started the trucking business.
An abandoned vehicle caught fire on the highway on Monday at around noon. The police personnel reached the trucking company while tracking the car’s owner. A relative of the kidnapped family was there at that time. After the family members could not reach via phone, a missing report was lodged, and police started investigations. After the surveillance footage was revealed, agencies, including the FBI, started cooperating with the investigation.
