Nancy had said she was unsafe. She had said her home was targeted. She had gone to police with names.

Nancy Grewal was a Canadian Sikh woman who came to Canada in 2018 to work, support her family, and build a life through sheer effort. She worked in Windsor, Ontario, as a personal support worker, often long hours, and became known in her union as a committed member and steward. But beyond her work, she became known for something else: she spoke openly against the violent Khalistan movement and against those she believed wielded fear and influence within her community.

That public voice came with a cost. According to CityNews Canada reporting on March 5, 2026, Nancy’s sister, Alishaa Grewal, said Nancy had been receiving threats, believed she was being followed, and had already gone to police with the names of people she feared. Alishaa described the killing as a “preplanned murder” and “revenge” for Nancy’s videos. These details place Nancy’s death in the context of repeated warnings, not sudden chaos.

On the night of March 3, 2026, Nancy was stabbed outside a home on Todd Lane in LaSalle, Ontario, shortly before 9:30 p.m., after finishing work at a client’s residence. CityNews reported that she was attacked outside and “stabbed continuously.” LaSalle Police later said the killing was “not a random act of violence” and was being investigated as “an intentional act against her.” The Ontario Provincial Police were later brought in to assist.

What makes this case especially troubling is that Nancy had already described the danger in her own words. In a video recorded before her death, she said someone had thrown gasoline on the front porch of her house in November 2025 and stated plainly: “I’m a Canadian citizen, but I don’t feel safe in this country right now.” In that same video, she alleged that the man behind the attack was linked to Gurdwara Khalsa Parkash in Maidstone. She also connected that intimidation to an earlier shooting near St. Rose Avenue and Wyandotte Street East in Windsor.

Local reporting in the Windsor Star confirms that Windsor police investigated shots fired in that area on March 9, 2023, at the location (St. Rose Avenue and Wyandotte Street East) that houses Pal’s Auto Service. In Nancy’s telling, these were not isolated incidents—they formed part of a pattern.

Her account went further. Nancy said the “real man” behind the attacks never comes forward himself, but instead “hires repeat offenders and criminals to do the job.” She described a family with a criminal background, said one man had already faced a drug case, and claimed his son kept illegal weapons in a vehicle and tried to dispose of them before police caught him.

That detail gives particular relevance to the public record surrounding Gurfathe “Laddi” Singh Kooner, as reported by the Windsor Star. Reporting on Gurfathe Kooner’s case (son of Avtar Singh Kooner) stated that he was seen tossing a bag from the window of his F-150 pickup, with the recovered bag containing guns and ammunition. Nancy did not name him directly, but the overlap between her description and that record is striking.

After Nancy was killed, her mother’s videos further sharpened the picture. She said Nancy was brutally killed by enemies she had long feared, that those enemies were tied to Gurdwara Khalsa Parkash in Maidstone, and that Avtar Singh Kooner was among the men Nancy feared. She said Nancy had been pressured to apologize to him, that people linked to the gurdwara threatened she would lose “her job” and “her home,” and that someone had previously tried to attack her at home but fled when cameras were noticed.

She also said Nancy had reported “each and everything” to police, including submitting a letter. CityNews independently reported that Nancy had indeed gone to police and supplied the names of people she feared.

The name Avtar Singh Kooner also carries historical weight. Air India inquiry materials record that RCMP investigators searched his residence for guns in June 1985. On Avtar’s social media, he appears in a photograph with Lakhbir Singh Rode, nephew of Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale. Rode has been identified in public archival and terrorism-related references as a figure associated with the International Sikh Youth Federation, an organization listed in Canada as a terrorist entity.

That history may not answer the question of who killed Nancy Grewal, but it gives the local network she and her mother described a deeper and more serious context.

In the aftermath of the murder, Nancy’s mother was later seen softening or retracting parts of her earlier accusations. Even so, the core facts did not change: Nancy had said she was unsafe. She had said her home was targeted. She had gone to police with names. Then she was killed in what police themselves described as an intentional act.

Nancy Grewal’s story is not simply the story of a murder. It is the story of a working woman who warned that she was under threat, identified the people she feared, and was killed anyway. Her family, and much of the wider community, are now living not only with grief but with fear—and they are demanding justice.

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