A volunteer at the Metro Vancouver Sikh temple whose president was gunned down a week ago said Hardeep Singh Nijjar knew his life may have been in danger.
Gurkeerat Singh said Nijjar gave a speech at the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara on the day of his death just hours before the shooting in the temple's parking lot that claimed his life, noting he had been warned by Canadian intelligence officials.
Nijjar was gunned down in his vehicle while leaving the temple parking lot at around 8:30 p.m. on June 18, and homicide investigators said they are looking for two "heavy-set" suspects seen leaving the scene, likely to a getaway car parked a few blocks away. Nijjar was organizing an unofficial referendum in India for an independent Sikh state at the time of this death.
"He was a loving man, a hard-working man, a family man," Singh said. "He worked as a plumber, so he's well respected in the community, and he was someone that always the community looked up to."
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