Indian youth found murdered in Canada, hate crime suspected

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A 23-year-old Indian was found murdered at an apartment in Truro town of Canada’s Nova Scotia province, with community members suspecting it a racially- motivated hate crime, according to media reports.

David MacNeil of the Truro Police Service said a 911 call from 494 Robie St at 2 am on Sunday brought officers to the apartment building, where they found a man with life-threatening injuries, CBC Canada reported.

MacNeil confirmed the victim was Prabhjot Singh Katri who later died of his injuries. Singh worked for Layton’s taxi as well as one or two restaurants in Truro.

Police are treating the death as a homicide, the report said. A man was arrested in connection with the murder but was later released.

“We executed several search warrants on the weekend and we did have a person of interest that was arrested shortly after. However, they have since been released from our custody without charges related to this homicide at this time,” MacNeil said.

“That man remains a person of interest,” he said. MacNeil said he met with the victim’s family, friends, and members of the local Indian-Canadian community Sunday night to express his condolences.

Singh came to Canada from India in 2017 to study.

“Singh was a hard-working young man with a bright future and this is an absolutely senseless loss of life,” MacNeil said. “The community is outraged by this.”

A GoFundMe has been set up in an effort to send Singh’s body to India, CTV News reported. Singh’s friends are worried that the attack was a racially motivated hate crime, the report said. Jatinder Kumardeep said Singh was “an innocent guy coming back from his job. He drives a taxi.”