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Gurpreet Singh was convicted of four counts of aggravated murder and sentenced to death for the April 28, 2019, shootings of his wife and three relatives inside their apartment in West Chester Township, Butler County, Ohio.

Singh, a 37-year-old commercial truck driver, lived at the Lakefront at West Chester apartment complex on Wyndtree Drive with his wife, Shalinderjit Kaur, 39, and their three children. Also at the apartment that night were her parents, Hakiakat Singh Pannag, 59, and Parmjit Kaur, 62, and Parmjit's sister, Amarjit Kaur, 58. Prosecutors said Singh had a long-term affair with a woman in Indianapolis, Indiana, and had given her about $20,000 toward buying a house. They placed money disputes between Singh and his father-in-law at the center of the motive, while the defense pointed to a family dispute over land in India.

The four victims were shot inside the apartment. Trial coverage reported between two and eight shots per victim, and all four died of gunshot wounds to the head. Singh's three children were not there. His cousin Harmanjot Sekhon testified that Singh had asked her and her brother to take the children to dinner and a movie. At 9:42 p.m., Singh called 911 and said he had come home to find the four on the ground and bleeding. West Chester police found all four dead.

Police questioned Singh that night as a witness rather than a suspect and did not arrest him. Investigators swabbed his hands for gunshot residue. At trial, analyst Donna Schwesinger testified that residue was found on both hands, while the defense argued it could have transferred through secondary contact with the shooting victims. Prosecutors said Singh's cellphone, vehicle GPS and Google location data placed him at the apartment before the killings. GPS put him in the complex parking lot at 9:03 p.m., about 39 minutes before the 911 call.

A Ruger SR9 9mm pistol was recovered from the bottom of a pond near the complex, with its serial number ground or drilled away. Testimony showed that every spent casing and slug recovered from the scene and the victims' bodies came from that gun. The defense argued that Singh's clothing had no victim blood despite the bloody scene. Singh was arrested on July 2, 2019, in a Walmart parking lot in Branford, Connecticut, and returned to Ohio on four counts of aggravated murder. A judge later denied a defense motion to suppress his statements to law enforcement.

Singh's first trial ended in a mistrial in October 2022 when jurors could not reach a verdict. He waived a jury for his retrial and appeared before a three-judge panel of the Butler County Common Pleas Court consisting of Judges Greg Howard, Keith Spaeth and Greg Stephens. On May 10, 2024, the panel found him guilty on all four counts of aggravated murder with firearm specifications. It sentenced him to death on May 14, 2024.

His appeal went directly to the Ohio Supreme Court. His lawyers raised 24 issues, including claims that his jury waiver was not knowing and voluntary because English is not his first language, that trial counsel was ineffective in recommending the waiver, and that Judge Howard should not have served on the panel after presiding over the first trial. They also argued that a legally owned Beretta handgun found in Singh's bedroom and unconnected to the shootings should not have been admitted. The court heard oral argument on August 4, 2026, and did not rule immediately. As of the most recent reporting, no decision has been issued and Singh remains on death row. Ohio has not carried out executions since 2020 because it lacks execution drugs.

The video is an approximately 66-minute police interview-room recording of West Chester detectives questioning Gurpreet Singh on April 28, 2019. It presents the interview itself, which was later played in court, and begins with a short narrated introduction naming the people involved.

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Part 2 of 2 of the recording described above.