THE Edmonton Police Service’s Homicide Section has charged another man in the January 1 death of 51-year-old Barinder Singh and the shooting of Singh’s 21-year-old daughter, who survived. The two were innocent victims of a wrongly targeted crime.

On June 19, Daqwan Roshayne Howard Lee, 28, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder, aggravated assault and discharging a firearm with intent.

He is the second person charged in the shooting, after Tevahn Orr, 31, who was wanted on a Canada-wide warrant, turned himself in to the Hamilton Police Service on March 21. Orr was also charged with first-degree murder, aggravated assault and discharging a firearm with intent.

On January 1, police officers responded to the report of a disturbance at a residence in the area of 16A Avenue and 38 Street. Officers located an injured man and woman.

EMS treated and transported Singh to hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries. Singh’s daughter was also taken to hospital with serious, non-life-threatening injuries and was later released.

On January 6, the Edmonton Medical Examiner completed an autopsy on Singh and determined the cause of death to be gunshot wounds. The manner of death was homicide.

Singh had moved from Punjab to Edmonton in 2019 along with his family.

Family members told he media that the four of them were asleep when the front door was smashed in and bullets began flying around. It was all like a nightmare for them, they added.