Suspect in California kidnapping is in custody as family is still missing

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The man is suspected of abducting four, including an 8-month-old baby, and tried to kill himself before Merced police arrived

Photograph: Andrew Kuhn/APPhotograph: Andrew Kuhn/APA man suspected of kidnapping a Sikh family, including an 8-month-old baby, in centraltried to kill himself Tuesday and is hospitalized in critical condition, authorities said. The family is still missing.

The family was kidnapped Monday at gunpoint from a business in Merced, 125 miles south-east of San Francisco, the office said, without providing further details. According to Naindeep Singh, the head of a local Sikh community organization, the four were taken from the gas station and convenience store they own.Merced county sheriff Vernon Warnke said the man took the baby, Aroohi Dheri; the child’s mother, Jasleen Kaur, 27; father Jasdeep Singh, 36; and uncle Amandeep Singh, 39, on Monday.

The sheriff’s office had released two still images of a possible suspect seen in surveillance footage, and asked for the public’s help in identifying him.

 

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