A teenaged boy has apologised for viciously beating up an elderly Indo-Canadian Sikh in a park in British Columbia two years ago. The victim died a month after being attacked.

'I am really ashamed of myself. I have no excuses and I should be punished. I can't say enough. I'm sorry,' said the boy who can't be named under Canada's Youth Criminal Justice Act.

The accused apologised during his hearing in the British Columbia Supreme Court Wednesday. He had attacked Mewa Singh Bains, 83, with a baseball bat in a park washroom in Surrey (British Columbia) in 2005....

The prosecution wants the teenager be given a sentence of six to nine years. The defence is asking for four years, minus the 23 months the youth has already spent in jail. [Link]

A family and a community were mourning Saturday night the death of beloved professor and role model killed by a hit-and-run driver on Long Island. NewsChannel 4’s Aimee Nuzzo reported.

Gurcharan Singh, 77, a scholar and a professor, was also a counselor to New York's Sikh community and a philanthropist devoted to bringing people of different faiths and nationalities together, according to family and friends....

The Plainview father of three and grandfather was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver while walking from his home to church Friday night.

Dr. Singh was crossing Old Country Road in Plainview just after 8 p.m. headed for the Sikh temple, when a red or maroon car traveling westbound ran a red light, struck him and kept going, police told Nuzzo.

Singh was airlifted to Nassau University Medical Center with multiple fractures and head trauma, but he did not survive....

Anyone with information about the mishap was asked to call Nassau County Crime Stoppers at 1-800-244-TIPS. [Link]