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After saying he discovered the bodies of his wife, her visiting aunt and his in-laws all shot to death in the family’s West Chester, Ohio, apartment, 37-year-old Gurpreet Singh struggled to describe his emotions.
“I have no words,” he told theCincinnati Enquirer, which reported that he broke down crying. “The trauma has been too much. It’s too hard to even think of all that has happened. My brain is not working.”
It was Singh who dialed 911 to report the killings.
On Tuesday, more than two months after the April 28 murders, authorities alleged that Singh also pulled the trigger.
In anews conference, West Chester Police Chief Joel Herzog called the slayings a “heinous crime” as he reported the arrest of Singh in Connecticut.
Butler County Prosecutor Mike Gmoser said he may seek the death penalty for the suspect.
“It’s easy for people to jump to conclusions and say ‘This is the person who did it’ but there is due process that takes place,” Herzog told reporters. “There’s evidence and rules of evidence we have to follow. [We had to] make sure no stone was unturned here.”
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Shalinder Kaur, 39, the suspect’s wife, had been shot three times and was found on the dining room floor of the apartment.
Kaur’s father, Hakiakat Singh Pannag, 59, was shot eight times in the head, and was found in a bedroom.
On the living room floor, authorities found Kaur’s mother, Parmjit Kauer, 62, who had been shot four times in the head and once in the arm, and Parmjit’s sister Amarjit Kaur, 58, a visitor from India, who had been shot twice in the head.
An attorney who might speak on behalf of the suspect was not immediately identified.
“We trusted him, we treated him like a son,” he said. “It’s painful to me, nobody deserves to die like this, nobody.”
source: people.com
