70-Year-Old Sikh Man Brutally Beaten With Golf Club Near Los Angeles Gurdwara
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Last Updated: August 12, 2025, 20:00 IST
Police say the suspect, a man in his 50s, attacked Harpal Singh while riding a bicycle. (IMAGE: KTLA/X)
A 70-year-old Sikh man, who is a resident of US state of California, suffered serious injuries after he was nearly beaten to death with a golf club in the North Hollywood area last week.
A video shared by victim's Harpal Singh to US-based news outlets ABC7 and KTLA showed (blurred out) the septuagenarian bleeding, sat on the sidewalk, after being brutally attacked while on his morning walk.
The Sikh community has urged local law enforcement authorities to investigate the case as a possible hate crime as Harpal remains in a medically induced coma in a hospital there.
His brother told American news outlets that Harpal underwent three surgeries following the attack that happened near a gurdwara.
'He is totally unconscious; they keep him under sedation," Gurdial Singh Randhawa was quoted as saying by Fox 11 Los Angeles .
A 70-year-old Sikh man nearly beaten to death with a golf club in North Hollywood is being considered a possible hate crime.The victim is in a medically induced coma.
The only description of the perpetrator provided by KTLA is 'a man". pic.twitter.com/HckC0Zqa43
— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) August 12, 2025
The report said that no arrest has yet been made.
Witnesses told Los Angeles Police Department officers that the attacker appeared to be a man in his 50s and was riding a bicycle at the time of the assault.
Friends said the 70-year-old victim often fed birds in the parking lot behind the convenience store near the Gurudwara, according to KTLA .
Harpal was a regular at the Gurdwara of Los Angeles, visiting daily for prayer and meditation, their report said.
ABC7 in its report said that the 70-year-old barely survived the attack but has been in the hospital, unresponsive and in critical condition.
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'An assault on any one member of our community is an assault on all of us," District 7 LA City council member Monica Rodriguez said while speaking to the outlet.
The fact that this happened and no one came to stop it until the point that Singh was left in such critical condition has absolutely spread fear in our community," said Munmeeth Kaur, the legal director of the Sikh Coalition, while speaking to ABC7 Shankhyaneel Sarkar
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