A 26-year-old woman of Punjabi origin was shot dead in Canada’s Toronto by a 37-year-old man of Punjabi descent.<\/p>\n
The Toronto Police have identified a Brampton-based man who has been charged with first-degree murder after a woman was fatally shot during what the police term as\u00a0 a \u201ctargeted attack\u201d in Etobicoke early Friday morning.<\/p>\n
The victim has been identified as Navneet Kaur (26) of Toronto. The suspect, Sharnjeet Singh (37), has also been charged with failing to comply with an undertaking.<\/p>\n
The relationship between the accused and the victim is not known yet.<\/p>\n
In a press statement, Toronto Police allege the victim and the suspect were engaged in a “brief interaction\u201d when the suspect shot the woman. Emergency responders rushed to the scene after receiving reports of the shooting and administered life-saving measures. However, the victim was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
According to the police, the suspect fled the scene before officers arrived but was later arrested following a search operation by officers of the Ontario Provincial Police.<\/p>\n
Sharnjeet was scheduled to appear before the Ontario Court of Justice in Toronto on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n
A witness, who was having coffee nearby, told he saw a man approach the woman and speak with her briefly before opening fire.<\/p>\n
The residents have raised safety concerns following the incident.<\/p>\n
Toronto Police are seeking additional information in this matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 26-year-old woman of Punjabi origin was shot dead in Canada’s Toronto by a 37-year-old man of Punjabi…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[47165,47166,47167,47168,47169,47170,47171,47172,47173,48,47174],"class_list":["post-144174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-bramptonmancharged","tag-canadianhomicide","tag-etobicokecrime","tag-firstdegreemurder","tag-gunsafetycanada","tag-navneetkaur","tag-punjabivictim","tag-sharnjeetsingh","tag-targetedattack","tag-toronto","tag-torontoshooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}