A California man has been charged with the kidnapping and killing of a family of four, including an eight-month-old girl. Jesus Salgado has been accused of kidnapping the family at gunpoint from their family trucking business on Oct.
3. The Associated Press reported Salgado was a former employee with a “longstanding dispute.” Read more: A suspected serial killer is hunting in California.
Here’s what we know so far Police believe Salgado killed the family — infant Aroohi Dheri, her parents, Jasleen Kaur, 27, and Jasdeep Singh, 36, and her uncle Amandeep Singh, 39 — within an hour of their kidnapping.
Salgado, 48, has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder with special circumstances, the Merced County District Attorney’s office said Monday. “Special Circumstances allege that the murders were committed during the commission of a kidnapping and that there were multiple murders in the same case,” the statement said.