On April 28, 2019, Shalinderjit Kaur Panag, 39, was shot to death in her West Chester, Ohio, apartment alongside her parents, Hakikat Singh Panag and Parmjit Kaur, and an aunt, Amarjit Kaur. The four victims were struck a total of 16 times. Authorities charged Shalinderjit’s husband, Gurpreet Singh, a former truck driver, with four counts of aggravated murder.

Prosecutors introduced physical evidence they said tied Singh to the scene, including the victims’ blood, gunshot residue and DNA on Singh, and GPS data placing him at the apartment. Singh’s defense maintained he was a witness who had lied to police out of fear. An October 2022 jury trial ended in a hung jury; the case later proceeded to a different adjudicative body.

The killings devastated the family and the local Sikh community, which was active in the aftermath.