Police say Barinder Singh and his daughter were ‘innocent victims of a wrongly targeted crime’
Toronto: A second accused has been charged with first-degree murder in a New Year’s Day shooting that left a 51-year-old Sikh man dead and his 21-year-old daughter injured in Canada. Daqwan Roshayne Howard Lee, 28, was arrested on Monday and charged with first-degree murder, aggravated assault and discharging a firearm with intent, Edmonton police said.
Police said Barinder Singh and his daughter were “innocent victims of a wrongly targeted crime”. Lee is the second person charged in the shooting, after Tevahn Orr, 31, who was wanted on a Canada-wide warrant, turned himself in to the Hamilton Police Service on March 21. Orr was also charged with first-degree murder, aggravated assault and discharging a firearm with intent.
On January 1, patrol officers responded to the report of a disturbance at a residence in the area of 16-A Avenue and 38 Street. Upon arrival, officers located an injured man and a woman. EMS responded, treated and transported Singh to hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries. The 21-year-old woman was also taken to hospital with serious, non-life-threatening injuries and was later released.
A week later, the Edmonton Medical Examiner completed an autopsy on Singh and determined the cause of death to be gunshot wounds. The manner of death was homicide.
Singh, along with his family, had moved from Punjab to Edmonton in 2019.