Police visited couple days before they were shot to death in Caledon. Their son wants to know why
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It's been more than a month since Gurdit Singh Sidhu's parents were shot and killed at their family's Caledon rental house.
The shooting, just before midnight on Nov. 20, left doors and walls in the property riddled with bullet holes. Jagtar Sidhu and Harbhajan Sidhu, both 57, were visiting Sidhu and his sister from India and planned to travel home in January.
Jagtar died at the scene and Harbhajan died in hospital. Both were shot more than 20 times, Sidhu said. Instead of celebrating his father's 58th birthday, he had to cremate him.
His sister was also shot 13 times and remains in hospital on life support. He says he still hasn't told her their parents are dead, and has since quit his job to look after her.
Sidhu says he's left questioning why he ever sought a life in Canada, and why he ever had his parents visit.
"I felt like I should have never called them here," he said. "I am just praying for my sister."
Sidhu wants answers. He wants to know who did this and why. He also wants to know why an officer from Peel Regional Police's Homicide and Missing Persons Bureau showed up to the property and spoke to his parents four days before their murder.
When he first learned of the shooting, Sidhu says the police visit was one of his first thoughts.
"That's the question we are trying to ask the police. 'Why were you here? Why was our family targeted? Why have you not informed us of anything?' Because for sure they knew something was going to happen," he said.
"We couldn't even think these things could happen in Canada. That's why I took citizenship here — [thinking it was] a safe country."
Sukhwinder Singh is a friend of the family who lives in the basement of the house. He was at home during the shooting.
"It was one shot, then silence for one or two seconds. I thought it was a tire ... who thinks someone is shooting in your house?" he said. "They were very loud, quick and fast ... many shots in a couple of seconds."
He says he rushed upstairs and saw a person running out the main door, jumped into a Ford F-150 that drove down Mayfield Road.
There was someone else driving the vehicle, he said.
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