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Murdered Indo-Canadian may have been encased in concrete
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By Gurmukh Singh Toronto, July 26
More than 20 days after the chilling murder of an Indo-Canadian youth here, police are yet to recover the body.
Police
suspect that the body might have been encased in a concrete slab and
dumped or buried on some rural property in Niagara region of southern
Ontario.
Shawn Kapadia, a 22-year-old Indo-Canadian youth from
Mississauga on the outskirts of Toronto, disappeared from his home on
July 5. His family reported his disappearance to the police on July 10.
Police
suspect Kapadia was murdered in a Toronto townhouse which he frequented
and his body was then taken to Niagara region in an old John Deere
backhoe.
The backhoe was found near Niagara Falls on July 23.
The
search of the Toronto townhouse led police to a rural home at Wainfleet
near Niagara Falls where Kapadia’s car, a silver Pontiac G6, was found.
Investigations
have revealed that the John Deere backhoe was seen coming to the
Wainfleet home on July 10 and leaving with a large concrete slab in its
front bucket on July 12.
But police have not found the concrete
block in the recovered backhoe and suspect that the concrete slab with
Kapadia’s body encased in it might have been dumped or buried on some
property.
Police have asked people with properties in Welland,
Wainfleet, and Niagara Falls to carefully watch for any fresh digging or
fresh concrete dumped on their properties.