A brother and sister sued Peel Regional Police for multimillion-dollar damages after their parents were killed in a mistaken identity shooting. The parents, Jagtar Sidhu and Harbhajan Sidhu, were visiting their children in a rented home in Caledon. Peel police allegedly knocked on the door days before the killings while searching for a man named Bobby. After receiving interpretation help and being told the family did not know anyone by that name, police left about an hour later. Almost four days later, the parents were shot and killed, while their daughter Jaspreet Kaur Sidhu survived after being shot 13 times. The claim alleges police knew or should have known the residents were in imminent and grave danger and failed to conduct a reasonably diligent investigation or disclose a credible threat. Peel Regional Police denied wrongdoing and said they had no involvement or control over what happened.
"A brother and sister have filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against Peel Regional Police, claiming their parents, killed in a mistaken identity shooting, would still be alive if police had warned the family there might be an “imminent” threat to their safety. The lawsuit alleges that days before the 2023 killings of Jagtar Sidhu and Harbhajan Sidhu, Peel police knocked on the door of their kids' rented Caledon home looking for a man named Bobby."
"After getting interpretation help and telling officers they didn't know of anyone by that name, police left about an hour later, the lawsuit says. Almost four days after police visited, Jagtar, 57, and Harbhajan, 55, were shot and killed in an attack allegedly linked to former Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding and a revenge plot for a stolen cocaine shipment, according to a U.S. indictment unsealed in 2025."
"The lawsuit claims that police who visited the Sidhu home ought to have known it was connected to a known Wedding associate, referred to as Bobby, alleging that officers were unaware of the connection “only because of their failure to carry out a reasonably diligent investigation.” Police were aware of a credible threat to his life and failed to disclose that to the Sidhu family, the lawsuit claims."
"Peel Regional Police have filed a statement of defence denying wrongdoing. Police claim no involvement or control' over what happened to Sidhu family. Sidhu, 31, and her brother Gurdit Singh Sidhu, 29, are seeking over $80 million in damages. Their statement of claim, obtained by CBC News, alleges that the tragedy could have been prevented because police knew, or should have known that residents living in the Caledon home were in imminent and grave danger."
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