The man suspected of murdering a Vancouver teen during her lunch break has been returned to Canada to face justice after 12 years on the run.
Ninderjit Singh arrived in B.C. Thursday morning after being extradited from the U.S., police say.
He is scheduled to appear in Vancouver provincial court Friday morning to face a first-degree murder charge in the 1999 shooting death of 18-year-old Poonam Randhawa. He is also charged with attempted murder in an unrelated shooting outside a Vancouver movie theatre in 1997.
Singh was arrested in California on Aug. 19 after a manhunt that lasted more than a decade. He had been living under an alias in San Jacinto, along with his wife and two young children.
He is accused of murdering Randhawa -- an ex-girlfriend -- during her lunch break at Sir Winston Secondary on Jan. 26, 1999. He allegedly shot her once in the head as she sat in the back of a friend's car and then dumped her body on a quiet street.
The alleged killer fled the country for California immediately after the slaying, and police in Vancouver and the U.S. have been searching for him ever since.
Police have said they are taking a second look at the murder case files to see if more charges are warranted. That might include some charges against Paul Aulakh, the man driving the car in which Randhawa was killed.
