Assassination in the western suburbs of Chester: 4 people shot dead in an Ohio apartment and their killer is on the run

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A family member found the four men, a man and three women, injured Sunday night in the West Chester Township apartment, about 40 km north of Cincinnati, police said.

The man who found them called 911 and told a dispatcher that his wife, mother, father and aunt were dead and bleeding.

Police who arrived found the four dead, as well as evidence that someone was preparing food there after their deaths, the police chief of the canton, Joel Herzog, told the press. .

The man killed, according to the Butler County Coroner's Office, was Hakiakat Singh Pannag, 59 years old. The three women were Parmjit Kaur, 62; Amarjit Kaur, 58 years old; and Shalinderjit Kaur, 39 years old.

All four died from gunshot wounds around 9:50 pm Sunday, the coroner's office said. Herzog, speaking to the media on Monday, said it did not appear that any of the four had fired with a weapon.

Officials from two countries say that they do not believe that it was a hate-motivated crime

Police said she was trying to find a motive for the murder.

But officials in Ohio and India, where the family had roots, said the murders did not appear to be a hate crime.

The Indian Minister of External Affairs, Chowkidar Sushma Swaraj, said on Twitter that a victim was an Indian national visiting the United States, while the others were of Indian origin.

"The police are investigating the case, but it's not a hate crime," she said. m said, quoting information she had received about the case of the ambassador of India to the United States.

West Chester Township spokeswoman Barbara Wilson also said on Wednesday that the police had no reason to believe the murders were a hate crime. She did not elaborate.

Although Swaraj stated that one of the victims was visiting India, Herzog said it seemed that the four were living in the Ohio apartment, with some children.

The children were not in the apartment at the time of the killings and are safe with their loved ones, Herzog said.

A family prayer service is held in a local Sikh temple

Jasminder Singh, chairman of the executive committee of a Sikh temple in West Chester Township, left, led a temple prayer service for victims of the shooting on Monday.
The four were members of the local Sikh community, said Jasminder Singh at CNN's affiliate, WCPO, in Cincinnati.

Singh led a prayer service for the victims Monday night in a Sikh temple where he is chairman of the township executive committee.

The murdered women attended temple events and helped prepare food, Singh told WCPO.

"We want to pray for (Pannag) and his complete family," Singh told WCPO, adding that he was Pannag's friend for 11 years. "It's sad, horrible, scary, everyone in the community is scared, it's never happened here before."

Katwinder Dhaliwal, a man who attended the prayer service, told WCPO that he was a neighbor of the victims, but he moved there two months ago.

"They were really nice people," said Dhaliwal. "Middle class family, you know, hardworkers do the daily work, come back … They came from India, they had a bright future, you know?"

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