A California-based family of four, including an eight-month-old infant, have been found dead two days after they were kidnapped at gunpoint.
Merced County Sheriff Vernon Warnke confirmed the deaths at a press conference on Wednesday evening. He told reporters the family — infant Aroohi Dheri, her parents, Jasleen Kaur, 27, and Jasdeep Singh, 36, and her uncle Amandeep Singh, 39 — were found dead in an orchard in rural Merced County, in central California. Read more: A suspected serial killer is hunting in California.
Here’s what we know so far “Tonight, our worst fears have been confirmed,” Warnke said at the conference Wednesday. The cause of death for the family members has not yet been revealed by police.
Warnke claimed during the conference that the kidnapped persons were likely killed before they were reported as missing. Video footage released by police on Wednesday shows the group being forcibly taken from their family-run trucking business.