A 42-year-old Indian-American Sikh police officer died on Friday after he was shot multiple times during a traffic stop in Texas.
The victim, Sandeep Dhaliwal, was the deputy Sheriff of Harris County.
Dhaliwal was attacked when he stopped a vehicle with a man and woman inside and one of them got out and shot him “ambush-style” at least twice in a “ruthless, cold-blooded way”, Sheriff Ed Gonzalez, a senior police official told reporters.
Foreign Minister Dr S Jaishankar condoling his death, tweeted: “Deeply grieved to learn of the shooting of Deputy Sandeep Singh Dhaliwal, a Sikh Indian-American officer in Houston, USA. We have just visited that city. My condolences to his family.”
Deeply grieved to learn of the shooting of Deputy Sandeep Singh Dhaliwal, a Sikh Indian-American officer in Houston. We have just visited that city. My condolences to his family. https://t.co/BBUJOFcjB8
— Dr. S. Jaishankar (@DrSJaishankar) September 28, 2019
Gonzalez said: “We immediately looked at his dashcam to see what the suspect looked like and took a photo of the suspect on the scene with their phone and immediately got that out to our intel people.”
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A 47-year-old suspect, Robert Solis, has been taken into custody and charged with the capital murder, the police said. It is not yet clear if it was a hate crime.