Jaswinder Singh, 68, was collecting his first paycheck from his first job in three decades when a gunman opened fire on the FedEx Ground facility in Southwest Indianapolis April 15, taking his life and killing seven others.
Singh, a deeply faithful man who dedicated his life to the Sikh religion and making his loved ones laugh, worked because it kept him active. He had abandoned farming, a family business, at the age of 36 after his father passed away. His three sons were quick to step in and begin providing financially for Singh and their mother.
In 2013, one of his sons, Greenwood resident Gurinder Singh, convinced his father and mother to move to the United States. They started in Tracy, California. Singh was quiet when he arrived at the San Francisco International Airport, upset at first that he had left behind the small village of Kotla Naudh Singh, in India's Punjab State, where he'd raised a family and spent his entire life.