Ranbir Singh Shergill was busted for illegally purchasing gun in Ohio.
AB Wire
An Indian American teenager from Queens, New York, Ranbir Singh Shergill, 18, busted for illegally purchasing a gun in Ohio with a fake I.D. may have been plotting to murder NYPD police officers, according to federal authorities.
Shergill became known to law enforcement on May 23 after he allegedly threatened to kill members of his family with a gun he kept at home in Richmond Hill, where he lived with his parents, according to FBI special agent Nicholas Olivero, reorted New York Daily News.
A box containing a Glock handgun, seven magazines, and 118 rounds of ammunition was found in Shergill’s bedroom.
Shergill admitted he had traveled to Ohio to buy the gun for $500 from a private owner, showed the seller a fake I.D. he had obtained on the internet and bought the ammo in Pennsylvania. Most disturbing was an undated note found on Shergill’s phone that appeared to be a plan to kill cops.
According to a complaint filed in Brooklyn Federal Court, last week, the note read: “Do it during a snowstorm, use the snow to mask your presence. Go from dunkin donuts on van wyck (Expressway) after shooting and killing officers … And one will be male other female. Then try to kill other nypd officers change clothes and go back to the crime scene or make false call.”
Shergill had been hospitalized after the discovery last month. He was arrested last Wednesday.
Magistrate Judge Cheryl Pollack sealed the courtroom for a bail hearing so his defense lawyer could discuss Shergill’s medical history.
After the hearing, the judge took off without making her ruling public. But sources said Shergill was ordered held, and the hearing will resume tomorrow, Tuesday.