FBI collaborating with California Highway Patrol to investigate drive-by shooting on Sikh separatist in California
The FBI is investigating an Aug. 11 drive-by shooting that targeted a California activist with close ties to Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar, who was fatally shot last year in a killing that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said could be linked to India.
Speaking through an interpreter, Raju said a white car pulled up to the left of their truck, then fell back behind them before pulling up alongside them again. That was when the first bullet was fired. The FBI’s Sacramento office confirmed it is collaborating with the California Highway Patrol “in support of the investigation” into the shooting.
The U.S. Justice Department has charged Indian national Nikhil Gupta with trying to arrange Pannun’s murder at the behest of an Indian intelligence official.Four Indian nationals in Canada are facing charges of murder and conspiracy in the death of Nijjar. In the days and months after Nijjar’s killing, the FBI and the Canadian Royal Mounted Police privately warned at least seven Sikh activists that their lives could be in grave danger, without specifying the source of the threat.Earlier this month, Reuters reported that threats and harassment against Sikh community leaders, including elected officials, has persisted in the United States and Canada since Nijjar’s death.
The Aug. 11 shooting occurred two weeks after Raju had returned from Calgary, Canada, where he helped organize a referendum that drew the participation of an estimated 55,000 members of the Sikh community, according to Pannun.
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