
“They should have tried to save him,” Gill said. His friends are disappointed more of an effort wasn’t made to revive Bassi after the shooting. He knows if you go to court with a gun or something what the outcomes are,” said friend Kelly Gill. He was an attentive father and was excited about an upcoming wedding in the family. She lived down the street on Flower Trail in Brampton with their young daughter.īassi then moved in with his elderly mother, helping take her to cancer treatments and bringing her to temple.ĭespite his history, Bassi wasn’t depressed, his friends say. His second marriage ended in a 2012 divorce but he and his ex-wife remained friendly, even mowing her lawn occasionally. That was an arranged marriage and ended quickly, friends say. He moved out when he married for the first time in the early ’90s.

This is a shock for us.”īassi emigrated from India around 1986, friends say, initially living with close family in Brampton. We don’t even know he had a gun, seriously,” said Jaswinder Khosa, who was friends with Bassi for over 25 years and saw him regularly at the Malton temple. He also faced charges related to credit card fraud in the mid-2000s.Ĭourt staff was not immediately able to provide the details of his alleged offences. What happened in the Brampton courthouse: a deconstructionīrampton courthouse security includes armed officersĪccording to court records, Bassi was not scheduled to appear at the Brampton location on Friday nor did he have any outstanding charges.īut his criminal record stretches back to at least 2000 when he was charged with aggravated assault after a fight broke out between several men at a Peel-area restaurant and a sword was produced.īassi’s charges were dismissed at a preliminary hearing.
