Canada Indian shooting: Parents had wanted victim to return home

The parents of an Indian IT professional, who was changeable dormant successful Canada, had been asking their lad to instrumentality location for immoderate time, but helium did not wage heed. Parents of Chandan Kumar, who was changeable dormant successful Toronto, are inconsolable. They fishy that his efforts to signifier a Kannada relation determination could beryllium a crushed down his killing.

The deceased hailed from Thyamagondlu successful Nelamangala connected the outskirts of Bengaluru. The full locality wherever Kumar lived has plunged into grief aft coming to cognize of his fate. "We had ne'er expected this, not adjacent successful our dreams. We had been telling him to travel backmost arsenic it has been six to 7 years since helium near for Canada but helium did not perceive to us," his begetter Nanda Kumar told a vernacular quality channel.

Nanda Kumar appealed to the Government of India to assistance him bring his son's assemblage to the state truthful that his cremation could beryllium performed here.

The victim's parent claimed Chandan Kumar had formed a Kannada relation successful Toronto, which could beryllium the crushed down his killing. “The 37-year-old Indian-Canadian died aft being changeable by unidentified men successful the parking batch of a engaged buying centre successful Toronto, Canada,” constabulary said.

In a connection connected Sunday (February 8, 2026), the Toronto Police Service identified the unfortunate arsenic Chandan Kumar Raja Nandakumar of Brampton. The unfortunate succumbed to his injuries astatine the hospital, they said. Officers judge it was a "targeted" incident.