Jesus Manuel Salgado and murdered Sikh family had a ‘pretty nasty feud’: Police

On Wednesday, October 5, an Indian-American family of four was found dead after they were kidnapped from their business in Merced County, Northern California. A suspect named Jesus Manuel Salgado was arrested by the police in connection with the kidnap and murders.

Salgado had reportedly kidnapped and killed Aroohi Dheri, an infant, her mother Jasleen Kaur, 27, 36-year-old Jasdeep Singh, her father, and her uncle, Amandeep Singh, who was 39. He had also attempted suicide before his arrest from his Atwater home.

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A CCTV footage retrieved by the police shows how the kidnapping was carried out by Salgado, reported Reuters. Check out the video right here:

It has now come to light from the statements of the police and the victims’ family members that there was an ongoing feud between Salgado, who was the victims’ employee, and the family he allegedly murdered. According to ABC 30, who spoke to one of the Singh family members, Salgado used to drive trucks for Singhs.

In an interview with Associated Press, Merced County Sheriff Van Warnke said that the trucking company goes by the name Unison Trucking Inc. Salgado had been working for the establishment for quite some time and a feud had been brewing between him and the Singhs for around a year.

Warnke went on to say that several e-mail and SMS exchanges between the two parties have been a testament to a feud between them, which “got pretty nasty”. Warnke also believes that Salgado was not acting alone and had an accomplice to help him commit the crime. He said, “I believe that he had someone else with him and at least helping him do some of the things. As far as the homicide itself, we are going to let the evidence take us where it needs to take us”.

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Salgado, 48, has reportedly served an eight-year jail term after a robbery he committed in 2005. Victims of this incident recently spoke to CBS47, and said that just like the Singhs, they too had a trucking company and had employed Salgado for a couple of years before firing him.