NEW YORK: A 47 year old Sikh gas station owner fell victim to an alleged hate crime as he was shot dead in the city of Newark. Davinder Singh was found unresponsive last week, and rushed to a nearby hospital only to be pronounced dead. His son Jatinder said he thought his father who had moved to the US 25 years ago may have been targeted because he was Sikh and wore a turban.
"I don't know what else it could be other than a hate crime," he said. Jatinder said his father was "the best man I ever knew" and that the family had worried about him working in Newark as he had been robbed before. "My dad came out to get some fresh air and the male came up to my dad, pointed a gun and shot him point-blank," he said in the report. Detectives from the Essex County Prosecutor's Major Crimes Task Force are investigating the shooting.
