He Said ICE Took His Wife. Detectives Say He Killed Her.

Written By TNT Staff, Posted on October 22, 2026

Featured photo: ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations officers in Los Angeles, June 12, 2025. U.S. Department of Homeland Security photo, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. ICE was not involved in this case.

When Jasmine Gill disappeared from her Sacramento home, her husband had an explanation ready: Immigration and Customs Enforcement had taken her.

It was not true. According to the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office, detectives called ICE, and the agency “confirmed that no enforcement activity had occurred at the residence.” Her husband, Gurinder Gill, 28, is now charged with her murder.

What the sheriff’s office says happened

Jasmine Gill, 30, was last seen at her home on Sept. 30. Her cousin reported her missing on Oct. 4. During the initial investigation, Gurinder Gill told detectives that ICE agents had taken his wife into custody while she was checking the mail, the sheriff’s office said.

Detectives checked the story with ICE, which said it had done no enforcement at the home. As the investigation went on, detectives “identified several inconsistencies” in his statements and learned the couple was in the middle of a divorce and a child custody dispute.

On Oct. 1, the day after she was last seen, burned human remains had been found in El Dorado County. Investigators later confirmed they were Jasmine Gill’s. Jewelry found with the remains helped identify her, sheriff’s Sgt. Edward Igoe told KCRA.

Detectives arrested Gurinder Gill on Oct. 14 and searched two homes linked to him. He was booked into the Sacramento County Main Jail on a murder charge and is being held without bail. A criminal complaint filed Oct. 16 accuses him of killing his wife “with malice aforethought,” SFGATE reported, citing the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office. His next court date is Dec. 7.

He is presumed innocent until proven guilty.

Jasmine Gill was a registered nurse and the mother of an 8-month-old boy, according to a fundraiser organized by her family. “She was trying to find the freedom, safety, and fresh start they both deserved,” her family wrote.

Why the lie was believable

The story Gurinder Gill allegedly told was built to be believed. For months, activists, local officials and parts of the press have described immigration enforcement as masked agents snatching people off the street with no record and no explanation. Against that backdrop, “ICE took her” sounds like a complete answer. It tells police to look somewhere else and tells the public who to blame.

That is the cost of the abduction narrative. When people are told that federal agents make people vanish, a vanished person becomes an immigration story instead of a missing-person case. Here, detectives did the obvious thing: they called ICE and asked. The agency answered, and the claim fell apart.

ICE detentions are not secret. Detainees can be found through the agency’s Online Detainee Locator System, and local police can confirm an arrest with a phone call, as Sacramento detectives did. A claim that ICE took someone can be checked, and it should be checked every time.

“Good detective work was able to determine that obviously something was awry here,” Igoe told KCRA. The sheriff’s office urged anyone in an abusive relationship to call for help.

The homicide case and a separate child custody investigation are still under way.

TNT Staff