A suspect has been arrested for attacking an elderly Sikh man in Los Angeles, USA. The officers provided this information. Officials said the victim’s scalp in this attack broke and he was probably stroke.
On August 4 near a gurdwara in Los Angeles, 70 -year -old Harpal Singh was attacked by a “homeless” man Bo Richard Vitagliano while he was walking.
The Los Angeles Police Department said in a statement on Tuesday that 44 -year -old Vitagliano was arrested on Monday on charges of “cruel attack” on Singh.
A case of attacking Vitagliano with a deadly weapon has been registered and an amount of US $ 11 lakh has been fixed for his bail. Advocate group ‘The Sikh Coalition’ said that the suspect has been taken into custody on the charge of cruel attack on Singh, but the police is not investigating the case as a hatred crime.
‘The Sikh Coalition’ said that Singh suffered a very serious injury due to the attack and his condition remains critical. Police said on August 4, law enforcement officers had received information on a radio call about “investigating the attack with deadly weapons”.
Initial investigation has revealed that there was a fight between Singh and Vitagliano. Vitagliano is “homeless” person. According to the police, eyewitnesses said that they could not see how the quarrel started, but they heard very fast noise and then saw two people throwing metal objects at each other. He told that when eyewitnesses made noise and intervened and stopped Vitagliano, he ran away on his bicycle.
The medical personnel of the Los Angeles Fire Department immediately took action and took Singh to a nearby hospital where he was admitted to the skull bone and a possible brain trauma. Singh is still under medical supervision due to injury in the quarrel.
Singh’s brother Dr. Gurdayal Singh Randhawa said that he is grateful that the police have arrested the suspect for this horrific attack, but “We need to understand this attack better.” We also need to understand why it is not being considered a hatred crime. “He said,” Justice must be.