Photo: Merced County Sheriff’s Office
Police said there was no surveillance camera inside the business, where the suspect entered.
In the second video shown at the press conference, the suspect can be seen marching Jasdeep and Amandeep out through the back entrance of the business. Police said the victims appeared to be tied up with zip ties before they were placed into the backseat of a pickup truck.
The suspect drove the truck away at 9:13 a.m. before returning to the business moments later to take Jasleen and Aroohi out of the business “unrestrained” and into the truck, according to an MCSO official at the briefing.
“From this point on, we no longer see any of the four victims on video at the location or the suspect vehicle or the suspect,” he said.
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A motive behind the kidnapping is unclear. Representatives from MCSO did not immediately return PEOPLE’s request for comment.
On Tuesday, detectives from MCSOidentified the suspect as 48-year-old Jesus Manuel Salgadoafter receiving information from a bank in the city of Atwater, where he had used one of the victims' ATM cards, the officials said.
At the news conference Wednesday, Sheriff Vern Warnke shared Salgado was convicted in 2005 of a crime involving armed robbery and false imprisonment. He was released on parole in 2015.
Sukhdeep Singh, a family relative of the victims, asked anyone with information about the case to contact authorities.
“Every store, gas station, everybody whoever [has] a camera please check the camera,” said Sukhdeep at the news conference. “If you have any helpful tip or video, please provide it to the sheriff’s department or law enforcement.”
“Please help us all come forward so my family [can] come home safe,” he added.
source: people.com
