Man sought in California kidnapping attempts suicide, family missing

LOS ANGELES, Oct 4 (Reuters) – A person sought in reference to the kidnapping of 4 family members from central California was in custody on Tuesday after trying to take his personal life, police stated.

The victims, together with an 8-month-old lady, remained missing. The Merced County Sheriff’s Office requested for the general public’s assist in discovering them.

The lady, Aroohi Dheri, was kidnapped alongside along with her mom Jasleen Kaur, 27, father Jasdeep Singh, 36, and the child’s uncle, 39-year-old Amandeep Singh.

Police have been alerted to the crime after discovering Amandeep Singh’s black 2020 Dodge Ram pickup truck burning on the facet of a county street on Monday.

In investigating the burning truck, sheriff’s deputies couldn’t attain the family and in the end decided that they’d been kidnapped.

Jesus Manuel Salgado, 48, was named an individual of curiosity by police after cameras captured a person resembling him utilizing a financial institution card belonging to one of many victims.

“Prior to law enforcement involvement, Salgado attempted to take his own life. Salgado is in our custody, currently receiving medical attention and in critical condition,” the sheriff’s workplace stated.

Earlier on Tuesday regulation enforcement officers had requested the general public for assist in fixing the crime however stated the suspect needs to be thought of armed and harmful.

“So far we have no ‘why’ of the kidnapping; we have no motivation behind it,” Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke stated in a videotaped message earlier than Salgado was taken into custody. “We just know that they are gone.”

Surveillance digital camera images of the kidnapping confirmed a person with a shaved head, his face obscured by a medical-style masks.

Merced is a metropolis of some 80,000 folks roughly 70 miles (113 km) west of Yosemite National Park that prides itself because the “Gateway to Yosemite.”

Reporting by Dan Whitcomb; Editing by David Gregorio, Bill Berkrot and Edmund Klamann

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