A musician (ragi) with a Sikh kirtan group was shot useless exterior a gurdwara at Selma within the US state of Alabama in a case of suspected hate crime on Saturday. Raj Singh (29), also referred to as Goldy, hailing from Tanda Sahuwala village in Bijnor district in UP, had been within the US with the group for one and a half years. He was standing exterior the gurdwara when unidentified assailants shot him within the stomach. The information of his dying reached his household Sunday.

Gurdeep Singh, the deceased’s brother-in-law, instructed TOI, “We were informed about the incident by relatives. It has been five days, and his postmortem is yet to be done. We have reached out to the gurdwara committee for more information, and they are helping us. We have also appealed to our govt for justice and the arrest of the killers.”

While the exact motive behind Singh’s homicide is but to be ascertained, his household believes that it could be a case of hate crime. This is the second homicide of an Indian-origin particular person within the area this month. Earlier in Feb, an American hotelier of Gujarati origin, Pravin Raojibhai Patel, 76, was shot useless after a confrontation with a person asking for a room in his motel in Sheffield, Alabama. In July 2019, Neil Kumar, a 30-year-old pupil from Kerala was shot to dying at point-blank vary in Alabama in an obvious theft bid.

Singh, the only real supplier for his household after his father’s dying, leaves behind his mom, two sisters, and a youthful brother. His household has written to PM Modi requesting his physique be introduced again to India for cremation.