Region of Peel: A 22-year-old resident of Brampton Surajdeep Singh was murdered on August 13 on a pathway in the area of Queen Mary Drive and Heathwood Drive in Brampton.
Investigators from the Homicide and Missing Persons Bureau have charged a 16-year-old male youth in the unprovoked attack and murder.
Under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, the identity of the suspect cannot be revealed or released. Emergency services received a call for a medical assistant for an unconscious man just a short walk away from Gurdwara Sikh Sangat. When officers arrived on the scene a man was located showing obvious signs of trauma and was transported to a local hospital with vital signs absent.
He was pronounced deceased at the hospital. “Surajdeep Singh was a young man with a bright future. He was simply trying to return to his residence from his place of worship when he was the victim of an unprovoked attack that tragically took him away from his family” said Martin Ottaway, Superintendent in charge of Investigative Services.
Surajdeep Singh moved to Canada from India three years ago and was “working hard to make something of his life,” his cousin Chandandeep Singh told CTV News Toronto. He worked parttime at a factory in Peel Region and was planning to return to Montreal to continue his studies. “He was very religious. He was very into God.
From work he used to go to the gurdwara and then after gurdwara he used to come home the same way,” his cousin said. Surajdeep Singh’s parents live in India. His body will be flown there for funeral services once released by police.