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‘Go ahead, shoot me’: B.C. teen Poonam Randhawa told killer she wasn’t afraid before he pulled trigger, court hears | Canada | News | National Post
VANCOUVER — With a gun pointed at her head, Poonam Randhawa stared up at her ex-boyfriend from the back seat of his friend’s car and laid down a challenge just before he ended her life.
“I’m not scared of you. Go ahead, shoot me,” the 18-year-old told the man.
With that, Ninderjit Singh made good on his threat to do exactly that if she didn’t tell him “the truth” about her perceived infidelity.
Fourteen years after the murder, details of the Vancouver teen’s “point-blank” killing and how the man evaded police for over a decade were recounted Wednesday at Singh’s B.C. Supreme Court sentencing hearing.
The man, who was hunted and finally tracked down in California in August 2011, pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of second-degree murder in a plea deal earlier this month.
Randhawa was killed just two days after her eighteenth birthday in a premeditated act by her former long-time boyfriend because he believed she was cheating on him, the court heard.
“He murdered her because she didn’t show the respect he believed he was entitled to, because he believed she had made a fool of him in the eyes of his friends,” said Crown lawyer Sandra Cunningham.
Court heard that on the day of the slaying, Singh asked a friend to drive him find Randhawa, who recently ended a two-year relationship with Singh.
The friend, who obtained an immunity agreement from police, recalled a loud and confrontational conversation between the pair that concluded with Singh half-standing over the teen threatening to shoot.
There was a single bang, and shattering glass.
Point - And why are Family members not charged
The judge heard that Singh’s family allegedly knew all the details of his whereabouts, and even spent $150,000 so he could obtain fake identification that allowed him to assume an alias and social security number.
“Every single member of his family claimed to have no idea where he was,” Cunningham said.
In later years, Singh’s mother flew to California and spent one month with him and his new wife who had given birth to two daughters.
“There is no evidence Ninderjit Singh is a changed person,” Cunningham said, according to the Vancouver Sun. “His family shares the same anti-social values he does.”
Police had been investigating heavily in the years after the murder but it tapered off. In 2006, they revived the file and authorized numerous undercover operators to attempt to infiltrate the family.
In summer 2011, they targeted his half-brother, who boasted that his brother was on America’s Most Wanted for killing his “fiancee.”
‘Go ahead, shoot me’: B.C. teen Poonam Randhawa told killer she wasn’t afraid before he pulled trigger, court hears | Canada | News | National Post
VANCOUVER — With a gun pointed at her head, Poonam Randhawa stared up at her ex-boyfriend from the back seat of his friend’s car and laid down a challenge just before he ended her life.
“I’m not scared of you. Go ahead, shoot me,” the 18-year-old told the man.
With that, Ninderjit Singh made good on his threat to do exactly that if she didn’t tell him “the truth” about her perceived infidelity.
Fourteen years after the murder, details of the Vancouver teen’s “point-blank” killing and how the man evaded police for over a decade were recounted Wednesday at Singh’s B.C. Supreme Court sentencing hearing.
The man, who was hunted and finally tracked down in California in August 2011, pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of second-degree murder in a plea deal earlier this month.
Randhawa was killed just two days after her eighteenth birthday in a premeditated act by her former long-time boyfriend because he believed she was cheating on him, the court heard.
“He murdered her because she didn’t show the respect he believed he was entitled to, because he believed she had made a fool of him in the eyes of his friends,” said Crown lawyer Sandra Cunningham.
Court heard that on the day of the slaying, Singh asked a friend to drive him find Randhawa, who recently ended a two-year relationship with Singh.
The friend, who obtained an immunity agreement from police, recalled a loud and confrontational conversation between the pair that concluded with Singh half-standing over the teen threatening to shoot.
There was a single bang, and shattering glass.
Point - And why are Family members not charged
The judge heard that Singh’s family allegedly knew all the details of his whereabouts, and even spent $150,000 so he could obtain fake identification that allowed him to assume an alias and social security number.
“Every single member of his family claimed to have no idea where he was,” Cunningham said.
In later years, Singh’s mother flew to California and spent one month with him and his new wife who had given birth to two daughters.
“There is no evidence Ninderjit Singh is a changed person,” Cunningham said, according to the Vancouver Sun. “His family shares the same anti-social values he does.”
Police had been investigating heavily in the years after the murder but it tapered off. In 2006, they revived the file and authorized numerous undercover operators to attempt to infiltrate the family.
In summer 2011, they targeted his half-brother, who boasted that his brother was on America’s Most Wanted for killing his “fiancee.”
