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Sheriff's officials in central California released photos of a possible suspect in the kidnapping of four members of a family, including an 8-month-old child.
The Merced County Sheriff’s Office said the child's mother, father and uncle were taken against their will at gunpoint from a business in the city of Merced on Monday.
Sheriff Vern Warnke said the kidnapper has made no ransom demands or contact of any kind.
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"We have no motivation behind it. We just know that they are gone," Warnke said in a briefing posted on the department's Facebook page.
Deputies are searching Merced and surrounding areas for the baby, Aroohi Dheri; the child’s mother, Jasleen Kaur, 27; father Jasdeep Singh, 36; and uncle Amandeep Singh, 39.
A family, including a mother, father, child and uncle, were kidnapped in Merced, California, on Oct. 3, 2022. (Merced County Sheriff's Office via AP)
The sheriff's department released two still images from surveillance footage of a possible suspect and asked for the public's help in identifying the man. He's seen wearing a dark hooded sweatshirt, dark shorts and a light blue disposable face mask.
The sheriff said detectives believe the suspect destroyed unspecified evidence in an attempt to cover his tracks.
Merced is a city of 86,000 people about 125 miles southwest of San Francisco in the San Joaquin Valley.
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