SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A baby girl, her parents & uncle were found dead in a central California orchard & days after they were kidnapped at gunpoint from their business.
“Our worst fears have been confirmed,” Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke said.
Warnke said the victims were close to each other when found by a farm worker tending to an almond orchard in a remote area near the town of Dos Palos, a town about 30 miles south of Merced where the family was kidnapped on Monday.
He said he believed the family was killed before their relatives reported them missing Monday.
The grim announcement came after authorities earlier Wednesday released surveillance video of a man kidnapping 8-month-old Aroohi Dheri; her mother Jasleen Kaur, 27; father Jasdeep Singh, 36; and uncle Amandeep Singh, 39, on Monday.
Warnke said the kidnapper made no ransom demands but that he believed it was a financially motivated crime.
Authorities said they were taken by a convicted robber who tried to kill himself a day after the kidnappings. Jesus Salgado, 48, was in critical condition when taken into custody but has been talking to police.
The 4 family members were taken from their business in Merced, a city of 86,000 people about 125 miles southeast of San Francisco.
Surveillance video released earlier Wednesday showed the suspect first walking by the property before talking to one of the men. Later, it shows him leading the men, who had their hands zip-tied behind their backs, into the back seat of Amandeep Singh’s pickup truck. The suspect then went back to the trailer that served as the business office and led Jasleen Kaur, who was carrying her baby in her arms, out and into the truck before the suspect then drove away.
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