A 26-year-old man from Haryana’s Jind district was shot dead in California after confronting an individual for urinating in public. The victim, Kapil, son of Ishwar from Barah Kalan village, was working as a security guard when the incident occurred on Saturday, village sarpanch Suresh Kumar Gautam confirmed.
According to the sarpanch, Kapil objected to the act, following which the accused shot him dead on the spot. US police have released video footage of the crime, identifying the victim as an Indian-origin Sikh man.
Kapil, the only son of a farming family, had travelled to the US in 2022 through the “donkey route,” a perilous illegal migration path via Panama and Mexico, which cost his family around ₹45 lakh. Initially detained, he was later released through legal proceedings and had been living in the US since then.
His family, informed of the tragedy by relatives abroad, has been devastated. Kapil leaves behind two sisters, one of whom is married. The family now seeks government assistance to bring his body back to India. “The entire village is standing with the family in this time of grief,” sarpanch Gautam said.
