US: Indian-Origin Man Shot Dead In NY

An Indian-origin man was shot dead execution-style. According to media reports, the man was sitting in a jeep near his home in NY.

After the shooting on Saturday afternoon, Satnam Singh, 31, was taken to a local hospital, where doctors declared him dead.

The incident happened in the South Ozone Park neighborhood, next to Richmond Hill, where 2 Sikh men had been assaulted in April in what police classified as hate crimes.

Both areas have large numbers of people of Indian origin.

The News said there was a discrepancy between the police and eyewitness accounts of Satnam Singh’s shooting.

According to police, the shooter approached the jeep on foot and shot him as he sat in it. On the other hand, a neighbor said the assailant fired from a car and that her home's security camera captured the incident.

There has been no arrest, and police were unsure of the motive confirmed by trusted media sources.

Satnam Singh, according to The News, had borrowed the jeep from a friend, and detectives were examining whether he was the shooter's intended target or had been mistakenly killed by someone who wanted to attack the owner of the vehicle.