Canadian drug kingpin Ryan Wedding in the news after the US indictment of his criminal empire but there is still no clarity and information on the Wedding cartel-linked shooter who killed a visiting elderly Punjabi couple in Caledon, Ontario in November 2023 in a case of mistaken identity. Jagtar Sidhu and Harbhajan Sidhu were killed after they were shot at a rental house on November  20, 2023. The couple, visiting from India, were shot in a brazen attack that authorities said was orchestrated by Wedding and his associate, Andrew Clark. Late that night, at least one gunman burst into the family’s rented home and opened fire, allegedly seeking revenge for a stolen cocaine shipment.  “Unfortunately, tragically,” Ontario Provincial Police Det.-Insp. Brian McDermott said, “they shot the wrong people.”

By DESIBUZZCanada Staff With News Files

TORONTO – While Canadian drug kingpin Ryan Wedding in the news after the US indictment of his criminal empire but there is still no clarity and information on the Wedding cartel-linked shooter who killed a visiting elderly Punjabi couple in Caledon, Ontario in November 2023 in a case of mistaken identity.

Jagtar Sidhu and Harbhajan Sidhu were killed after they were shot at a rental house on November  20, 2023. The couple, visiting from India, were shot in a brazen attack that authorities said was orchestrated by Wedding and his associate, Andrew Clark. Late that night, at least one gunman burst into the family’s rented home and opened fire, allegedly seeking revenge for a stolen cocaine shipment. 

“Unfortunately, tragically,” Ontario Provincial Police Det.-Insp. Brian McDermott said, “they shot the wrong people.”

A U.S. federal prosecutor also said Jagtar, 57, and his wife, Harbhajan, 55, had nothing to do with the drug trafficking ring.

Their daughter, Jaspreet Kaur Sidhu, 28, witnessed the rampage and was shot 13 times herself. She survived, but suffered what police describe as “life-altering injuries.”

McDermott, the OPP’s major case manager for the Caledon attack, acknowledged in an interview that investigators haven’t been able to determine the shooter’s identity, reported CBC News.

“We still are full steam ahead with that investigation, trying to identify those individuals that actually were in the house and pulled the trigger,” McDermott told CBC News. 

Former Canadian Olympian Ryan James Wedding, 43, has been charged for allegedly running a drug-trafficking operation that shipped hundreds of kilograms of cocaine from Colombia to Canada. 

A lawyer for the Sidhu family declined to comment on the case on Friday.

Jaspreet Kaur Sidhu recounted the incident to CBC News from her hospital bed earlier this year. 

“My father was shot in front of me,” she said. “I heard my mother’s last screams. After that, there was complete silence. Only the noises of gunshots.”