TRACY, Calif. — Parmjit Singh, a Sikh grandfather, was stabbed to death on his routine evening walk in Tracy's Gretchen Talley Park on August 25. Police arrested 21-year-old Anthony Kreiter-Rhoads of Tracy in connection with the killing. Kreiter-Rhoads entered a not guilty plea on September 4. Police haven't released a motive in the killing, but the case has drawn attention due to increased hate crimes faced by the Sikh community in California's Central Valley.
"He's such a wonderful person. Such a loving caring person. The last three years we have lived together and I can't explain the words for what I feel for him," Singh's son-in-law Harnek Singh Kang told ABC10. "We're going to miss him forever. He's going to be with us the rest of our lives with his memories."
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- 21-year-old arrested for deadly stabbing of Sikh man in Tracy, police say
- Son-in-law of Parmjit Singh gets candid about murder in Tracy park
- Deadly Sikh attack in Tracy raises worries about another potential rise in attacks on Sikhs
- Slain Tracy man's family offers $20,000 reward to aid homicide investigation
- Sikh community asks FBI to investigate stabbing death
- 'He was just a ray of sunshine' | Hundreds attend vigil for Sikh man stabbed to death in Tracy park
- Security cameras were not working in Tracy park where a Sikh man was murdered
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A LOOK BACK: In 2017, ABC10's Michael Anthony Adams explored what it's like to be Sikh in the Central Valley:
