Deceased Surajdeep Singh
ONTARIO: Peel
Regional Police have charged a 16-year-old male in relation to the homicide
investigation of Punjabi youth Surajdeep Singh.
Police investigators examine an area along a Brampton pathway after police Surajdeep Singh was found with traumatic injuries on Aug. 13, 2020. He later died in hospital.
On Thursday,
August 13, emergency services received a call for a medical assistant for an
unconscious man located on a pathway in the area of Queen Mary Drive and
Heathwood Drive in the City of Brampton. When officers arrived on the scene, a
man was located showing obvious signs of trauma and was transported to a local
hospital with vital signs absent. He was pronounced deceased at the
hospital a short time later.
The victim has
been identified as Surajdeep Singh, a 22-year-old man from Brampton
“Surajdeep Singh
was a young man with a bright future. He was simply trying to return to his
residence from his place of worship, when he was the victim of an unprovoked
attack that tragically took him away from his family” said Martin Ottaway,
Superintendent in charge of Investigative Services.
The identity of the 16-year-old will not be released as per the terms of the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
The suspect is
scheduled for a bail hearing on Friday.
This is an
ongoing investigation, police said, and anyone with information is being asked
to contact the Homicide and Missing Persons Bureau or Crime Stoppers.
His family members mourned his death in
Batala city of Punjab. One of the deceased relative said, “We
got a phone call at around 05:00 informing that some miscreants attacked on
Surajdeep with an intention of loot while he was coming back from Gurudwara . He got injured in the attack and lost his life in the incident.”
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