NEW YORK, June 28: A 31-year-old Indian-American Sikh was shot dead in Queens in New York when he was sitting in a car on Saturday. Satnam Singh was shot when he was behind the wheel of the SUV, borrowed from a friend, parked down the street from his home. A gunman approached and started shooting at him, The New York Daily News reported.

While the police said the gunman came on foot, neighbours said the assailant came in a car. The New York Police Department is reviewing the footage of home security cameras for evidence.

Police said Satnam Singh lived just down the street from where he was shot. Cops said Singh was struck in the chest and neck and died in a local hospital, Jamaica Hospital.

This is the second incident of racial attacks on Sikhs in New York. On Tuesday last week, two Sikh men were assaulted in the Richmond Hill.

On June 19, an Indian American techie, Nakka Sai Charan, 26, who hailed from Nalgonda district of Telangana, was shot dead by an unidentified man in Catonsville, west of Baltimore, Maryland.

8-year old boy accidentally shoots 1-year-old

TALLAHASSEE (fla.): A 1-year-old baby girl was shot and killed in a Florida motel room when her brother, an 8-year-old boy, accidentally shot her and another 2- year-old.

The incident occurred Sunday in Pensacola, in the Panhandle, after the boy’s father left the gun in a holster in the rooma and left the hotel. The boy found the gun and shot once, hitting both toddlers. The 2-year-old is expected to survive. A second 2-year-old, a twin, was not hurt.

All three children belong to the man’s girlfriend, who was sleeping when the boy found the gun in the closet. The man, later identified as 45-year old Roderick Randall has been arrested.