The Sikh family of four, 8-month-old Aroohi Dheri, her 27-year-old mother Jasleen Kaur, her 36-year-old father Jasdeep Singh, and her 39-year-old uncle Amandeep Singh were kidnapped and killed by a former employee of their trucking company last week
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Relatives of the four Indian-origin Sikhs killed in the US have raised more than USD 300,000 to support their families in California as well as their elderly parents back in India, reported PTI.
The Sikh family of four, 8-month-old Aroohi Dheri, her 27-year-old mother Jasleen Kaur, her 36-year-old father Jasdeep Singh, and her 39-year-old uncle Amandeep Singh were kidnapped and killed by a former employee of their trucking company last week.
A GoFundMe fundraiser is collecting funds for the Singhs’ extended family and has raised more than USD 300,000, according to abc7news.com.
The family, originally from Harsi Pind in Hoshiarpur, Punjab, was kidnapped at a business in Merced County, California, on October 3
Jaspreet Kaur, Amandeep’s widow, said in the fundraiser that her husband and his brother had been in the United States for 18 years and supported not only their families in California but also their elderly parents back in India. “This is the story of our shared American dream gone wrong,” she wrote. “Our loving family was violently taken away from us on October 3rd,” the family’s GoFundMe page said.
The funds would go towards helping Aroohi’s grandparents and the family of Amandeep Singh, his wife Jaspreet Kaur, and their two kids, both under the age of 10. The family, originally from Harsi Pind in Hoshiarpur, Punjab, was kidnapped at a business in Merced County, California, on October 3.
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