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Barrhaven woman slain on wedding anniversary
Police confirm death a homicide, no suspect identified yet
OTTAWA — Bhupinderpal Gill left his Barrhaven home late Wednesday morning to buy cake and flowers for his wife to celebrate their 17th wedding anniversary.
His 15-year-old daughter, Dilpreet, tagged along to run errands while her mother, Jagtar Gill, stayed at their home. The couple’s 10-year-old daughter, Jagjot, and eight-year-old son, Beant, were at school.
Two hours later, Gill and Dilpreet returned home to make a gruesome discovery.
Dilpreet, the first one in the house, saw her 44-year-old mother’s body in the living room covered in blood, with slash wounds across her throat and wrists.
Police descended on the upscale residential neighbourhood after they received a 911 call around 1 p.m. from Dilpreet and her father.
On Thursday, police confirmed the woman’s death was a homicide. Police said they have not identified a suspect.
As news spread that police were at the well-kept two-storey home the Gills bought in 2012, family members started to arrive.
Gill’s brother-in-law, Kulwinder Sidhu, and sister, Harjinder Sidhu, said they knew something was wrong when no one answered the phone at the Gill residence.
Harjinder said she is close with her sister and that they talked on the phone everyday.
Kulwinder drove over to the home and was greeted by a flurry of police activity on the normally quiet street.
“It’s shocking news,” he said. “You have no idea what happened so it’s all shocking.”
Jagtar Gill grew up with her two sisters and brother on a farm in India. In 1993, Gill and her family moved to Canada where she began to work at an electronics company as a quality control employee. Gill was recently laid off from that job after 20 years.
Gill’s family remembered her Thursday as a strong woman and a loving mother with an impeccable memory.
“She never forgot to call us on birthdays or anniversaries,” Kulwinder Sidhu said. “She never, ever forgot.”
The family did not immediately tell Jagjot and Beant their mother was dead.
Still in shock themselves, the family waited until Thursday to tell the two young children their mother was not coming home.
“They are crying now,” the victim’s sister, Harjinder Sidhu, said.
After hearing the news that her sister was dead, Sidhu herself ended up in the hospital. Her medication-controlled high blood pressure had spiked from stress.
“I don’t know what’s happened to her,” a tearful Sidhu said.
Gill’s parents still don’t know their daughter is dead. They live in Ottawa, but they went to India for a few months for a visit.
They were scheduled to stay in India until late April, but have arranged to fly home Sunday.
Satnam Mann, the victim’s younger brother, said he told his parents that his sister was in the hospital and they need to come home.
As the investigation into the killing continued Thursday, police would not say if there was evidence at the home of forced entry.
Court records show the couple has never been charged, and police say they have not dealt with them before.
Bhupinderpal Gill, the victim’s husband, is an OC Transpo bus driver who was once commended for calling the police about an assault, which led to several arrests.