Aly Sunderani knew something was up as he returned to his job as manager of the Comfort Inn on Silvercreek Parkway on a snowy March day in 2016.
He had been acting strangely at lunch, checking his phone and appearing nervous.
As he exited his SUV in front of the motel's front doors, Raja Dosanjh stepped up and gunned him down with a sub-machine gun, hitting him with numerous bullets.
Dosanjh took off in a geataway car, Sunderani died in hospital a short time later.
Dosanjh was arrested a year later in British Columbia.
Over three years after the murder, it took a jury just under 24 hours to find the B.C. man guilty of first degree murder and sentenced to life in jail with no chance of parole for 25 years.
Intrepid police work by Guelph Police and innovative investigative techniques that tracked the travels of the rental car Dosanjh escaped in proved to be the undoing for Dosanjh, who claimed he was with his brother-in-law at the time of the killing.
The court proceedings were protected by a heavy armed presence by the police tactical unit as police believed the murder may have been an organized crime hit.
“My son is gone, now he’s going to rot in jail,” a woman cried out in the courtroom.
Dosanjh is appealing his conviction.
