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Sikh crowd bashes suspect shooter
after murder
WSN Bureau
 SACAREMENTO:
This man had thought it will be possible to shoot dead another and
get away from a stadium just because people would be too frightened
to stop him. He just overlooked one detail. There were far too many
Sikhs in there and they wouldn't have let escape a potential killer.
At a Sikh sports
festival near
Sacramento, the
crowd members whacked the man suspected in the deadly shooting with
sticks to stop him from fleeing.
On Sunday
afternoon, while hundreds were enjoying the Second Gurmukh Singh
Johal Memorial Tournament, the sports field –the Sacramento Sikh
Society Sports Complex, attached to the local gurdwara soon
converted into a battlefield as 23-year-old Gurpreet Singh Gosal
from Indianapolis attacked another Sikh with a gun, following which
he was hit with cricket bats and hockey sticks and then chased and
captured by witnesses.
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Six dead in
Washington state shooting rampage
WASHINGTON: A shooting spree in Washington state left six dead
and two wounded with the suspected gunman surrendering
to police after a car chase, local media reported. The victims
included a sheriff's deputy in Skagit County in the northwest of
the state, The Seattle Times reported on its website. A man was
arrested after he turned himself in to authorities in Mount
Vernon, state trooper Keith Leary was quoted as saying.
The suspect was described as "someone with a mental illness."
The dead were shot at several locations, including the
sheriff's deputy who was responding to a call when he was killed
near the town of Alger. A second victim was killed in
Alger and two construction workers were shot nearby. Another
body was found a few houses away, according to Leary. A
motorist was shot dead on Interstate 5, as the suspect was
fleeing south. |
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He has since
been arrested and booked by the police for murder. The other
attacker, Amandeep Singh Dhami accompanying him fled the scene in a
vehicle parked near the ground.
Paramjit Pamma
Singh, 26, of Bay area died on the spot while another 38 year old
man is serious and recovering at the UC Davis Medical Center.
The shooting
incident occurred when the local population was watching an outdoor
basketball game.
"People were
hiding behind cars, trying to get out of the field. There was a girl
in a wheelchair stranded out there and we were all scared," a
witness told a local TV station.
"The crowd heard
the gunshots and saw the men with the guns". The crowd didn't hold
back the fact that they hit him." said Sgt. Tim Curran.
Investigators
have discovered two handguns on the field where the incident
occurred. After talking to people assembled there, the police
said that they did not think that the shooting was a random act or a
hate crime but was probably a result of an on-going dispute and that
the attackers were on the look out of the victims.
Sacramento
County sheriff's spokesman Sgt. Tim Curran confirmed the details and
was quoted in the local media as saying that by the time police
arrived on scene, members of the audience openly admitted striking
the fleeing man with sports gear to detain him for the officers.
 Surprisingly for
the police, the crowd, armed with cricket bats and field hockey
sticks, didn't hold back in telling them what happened and how they
bashed the attacker.
There seemed to
be some ongoing dispute behind the shooting and suspects possibly
knew the victims.
3 September 2008
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