New York:"American dream gone wrong", says the family of the Punjab-origin Sikh family of four, including an eight-month-old infant, who were murdered in California. Their immigrant dream ended when eight-month-old Aroohi Dheri, her parents Jasleen Kaur, 27, and Jasdeep Singh, 36, and her uncle Amandeep Singh, 39, were violently kidnapped from their trucking business in Merced on Monday and found murdered on Wednesday.
The family said in an online fundraiser on gofundme.com: "As immigrants to America, they worked tirelessly for 18 years to achieve safety, security, and community for themselves and their families." The Merced County Sheriff's Office verified on Friday that the fundraiser was indeed the family's and the only one authorised by them after it had issued an alert about the possibility of unauthorised appeals. The family's gofundme page said that they all lived under one roof with Randhir Singh and Kirpal Kaur, who were the parents of Amandeep Singh, and Jasdeep Singh, and the wife of Amandeep Singh, Jaspreet Kaur and their children, six-year-old Ekam and nine-year-old Seerat.
The two brothers were "the primary bread earners for the family (and) supported their elderly parents", the appeal said. As of 8.45 p.m. in California on Friday, the appeal had received $102,238 from 1,070 people. The appeal has a goal of $250,000 to support the education of Ekam and Seerat and "provide financial relief" to Jaspreet Kaur and the elderly parents.