A student from India was shot dead at Grocery Store in California

According to media in US state of California a 21years old Indian student has been shot dead allegedly by four robbers, among which there was an Indian –origin man, at a grocery store.

With intention to carry out loot in gas station four armed robbers one of Indian barged into the store where Dharampreet Singh Jasser was on duty at grocery store. As said Jasser was on night duty try to hid  behind the cash counter but was noticed by one of four robbers while they were leaving the service station after looting cash and goods and shot Jasser as times report. Jasser is originally from Punjab was a student of accounting and had been US around three years on student visa.

The incident was reported to the police yesterday when a customer stopped by to buy some goods where they found dead bodies of Jasser on the floor. Police arrested 22-year old Armitraj Singh Athwal, an Indian origin man who is believed to be one of the four suspects who looted and fired multiple shots on of which hit Jasser as gas station grocery store. Police said a Fresno County Sheriff’s deputy saw media coverage of the incident on Tuesday and recognized some similarities between the suspects from the incident and Armitraj County Sheriff’s office. After consulting reports from Madera Sheriff’s detectives and determine that Athwal is likely suspect in the shooting, a warrant has been obtained for suspect will be transferred to the Madera Department of Corrections, as per reports. Madera Sheriff Jay Varney said “Dharampreet was completely innocent victim, just doing his job, when he was senselessly killed during this robbery”.

Punjab CM Amarinder Singh in a tweet “Shocked at the gruesome murder “requested External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj “to take up the issue at the highest levels with US authorities to ensure justice for the Family’.