'Tonight, our worst fears have been confirmed.' The Merced County Sheriff's Office confirms all four family members kidnapped at gunpoint Monday have been found dead.
The family members were taken from their business in Merced, a city of 86,000 people about 125 miles southeast of San Francisco in the San Joaquin Valley, California’s agricultural heartland.
Warnke said the kidnapper made no ransom demands in what he believes was a financially motivated crime. At the earlier news conference, Warnke said detectives had not been able to speak to Salgado, who has been under medical sedation in the hospital, but they were hoping to do so Wednesday with the help of doctors.
He was released from prison in 2015 and discharged from parole three years later. He also has a conviction for possession of a controlled substance, the corrections agency said. Family members told a Sacramento TV station that the office for Unison Trucking Inc., the family’s business, had only opened about a week earlier.
The sheriff’s office said that firefighters on Monday found Amandeep Singh’s truck on fire. Merced Police Department officers went to Amandeep Singh’s home, where a family member tried to reach him and the couple. When they were not able to reach their family members, they called the Merced County Sheriff’s office to report them missing, the office said.
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