Sikh American stabbed to death in taxi in USA
Friday, 01/09/2017
http://epaper.dailypostindia.com/Details.aspx?id=180011&boxid=61305&uid=&dat=2017-09-01
Washington: A Sikh American man was stabbed to death in his taxi in the US by a 19-year-old who was upset over not getting admission into his choice of university. The incident happened this week in Bonner County in Idaho. The victim has been identified as 22-year-old Gagandeep Singh, a final year student of software engineering. He hailed from Jalandhar in Punjab.
Singh was attacked by Jacob Coleman, 19, whom he picked up from Spokane International Airport. Coleman flew from Seattle to Spokane to attend Gonzaga University but was denied entry. He later hired Singh’s cab and asked him to be driven to a fictitious friend’s house.
However, Coleman became homicidal during the drive and fatally stabbed Singh with a knife he purchased on the way during the drive. Coleman later surrendered himself to the police and told officials he was upset as he didn’t get admission to Spokane-based Gongaza University where he wanted to study, reports said.
Coleman was charged with first-degree murder. Kamaljit Kaur, Singh’s mother, told the police she called her son who told her he was carrying a “white man” in his taxi.
