Sister of Sikh influencer killed outside LaSalle, Ont., home says she was ‘kind-hearted’
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The family of Nancy Grewal — a Sikh social media influencer who was fatally stabbed outside a LaSalle, Ont., home — is remembering her as a kind-hearted and jovial woman.
Grewal, 45, was killed March 3 outside the Todd Lane home, where she was working as a personal support worker (PSW).
“Every time she used to tell me, ‘I buy something for my client, my patient, I buy this from my personal savings,’” Grewal's sister, Alishaa Grewal, said from Mumbai last weekend during an interview with CBC News.
“She's a very kind-hearted girl … She was so funny, so jolly. In every situation, she [would] laugh.”
Alishaa said she and her sister used to talk often by video call and Nancy was more like her mother than a sibling.
Alishaa said Nancy was a professional singer before moving to Canada in 2019 and eventually becoming a PSW. She said it was Nancy’s dream to start a health-care business to hire more PSWs.
Nancy, who was a critic of Khalistan extremism, had received death and assault threats on social media, according to Alishaa.
Less than a week before her death, Nancy spoke to CBC about threats she said she was facing.
“I know sometimes I feel scared when they said '[we’ll] kill you' then I said, 'OK, you can kill me any time,’” she said in the interview.
The Khalistani movement in general calls for a Sikh homeland separate from India that independence activists have long demanded. Not all separatists support violence. However, extremist factions of the movement have been involved in violent incidents.
LaSalle police say her death was a targeted killing. They continue their investigation and haven’t commented on a possible motive.
An Ontario Provincial Police canine unit helped early in the investigation; the RCMP said it hasn’t been called in to help.
In the interview, Grewal told CBC the week before she was killed that a man started a fire on the front deck of her Windsor home in November.
"I don't feel safe here," she said. "The guys attack on my house."
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