On January 1, 2016, 68-year-old Sikh man Gurcharan Singh Gill was found stabbed to death inside Shields Express Mart, a liquor store in Fresno, California. He was the city’s first homicide victim of 2016.

Gill’s killing occurred amid other incidents targeting Sikhs in Fresno, raising concern that violence against the community may have been escalating and possibly motivated by xenophobia.

If anyone has information about the man seen on the store surveillance or about threats against the Sikh community in Fresno, please come forward.