SAN JOSE: Sunnyvale authorities Thursday announced they had arrested two men in the September stabbing death of Gurmeet Shergill a 36-yr-old research engineer at Intel Corp.
One of the men Surinder Singh Bains 33 of San Jose was identified as Shergil’s brother-in-law. Police said Bains had conspired with the second man Rafael Perez Hidalgo 36 of South San Francisco to kill Shergill because of bad feelings within the family structure. ‘
A news release from the department offered no details. It did not explain the bad feelings or say whether either man wielded the knife that killed Shergill. It offered no clues about what led to the arrests
A spokeswoman for the public safety department said detectives had gone home and were unavailable for comment. Both suspects were being held Thursday night in Santa Clara County Jail.
Shergill was found dying of a dozen stab wounds outside his residence at the Viscount Apartments on Bernardo Avenue shortly after 8 p.m. Sept.23.
A kitchen knife was found near where he fell. Shortly after the killing investigators said they were searching for three young men who had exchanged words with Shergill at a McDonald’s restaurant at Bernado and El Camino Real.
Police said then that one of the men was reportedly only a driver and did not participate in the attack. It could not be learned Thursday evening whether investigators had found that man.
Shergill had nearly completed the work for a master’s degree at Stanford University and was known as a studious quiet employee at Intel where he did semiconductor research He had told friends he intended to continue at Stanford for a doctorate. Fellow employees said he was not the kind of man to confront anyone. (Mercury News)
Article extracted from this publication >> August 23, 1991
