Prominent San Francisco Bay Area Chef found murdered |
A prominent San Francisco Bay Area chef was found dead early morning Oct. 8 in his Fremont, Calif., home, in what police are investigating as a homicide. Indian American Dominic Sarkar, 56, the executive chef at Rangoli at the time of his death, was a fixture in the South and East Bay Area food scene. Sushma Taneja, owner of Passage to India in Mountain View, Calif – where Sarkar had worked on and off since 2009 – told India-West Sarkar was one of the best chefs in town. This is a big loss to the food industry, she said.Taneja said that on the day he was found deceased in his Fremont home Sarkar was scheduled to take a vacation to Bengal, where his wife and three daughters live. After he was to have returned Nov. 2, Sarkar was scheduled to take up his post again at Passage to India. Lt. Mike Tegner of the Fremont Police Department said that a community resident called police at 12:24 a.m. Oct. 8, reporting the sounds of gunshots. The caller said he saw a man of an unknown age or race leaving the house on a bicycle, and pedaling away from the scene, according to Tegner.
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