FREMONT — As detectives continue to investigate the city’s second homicide of the year, police on Tuesday identified the victim who was found deceased inside his bedroom as 56-year-old Dominic Sarkar.

No arrests have been made, and police said they are dedicating all the resources they can toward solving the crime.

Lt. Mike Tegner of the Fremont Police said in an interview Tuesday a motive has not been established.

“Everybody that we’ve run into has talked about how nice of a person he is, how they have no idea why anybody would do something like this to him,” Tegner said of the killing.

Sarkar’s body was found about 12:30 a.m. Monday inside a home in the 43000 block of Charleston Way, near Fremont Boulevard and Blacow Road. Police said Sarkar was an executive chef at a Fremont restaurant.

Sushma Taneja, owner of Passage To India restaurant in Mountain View, said Tuesday evening Sarkar was her executive chef there for much of the past nine years, and was a talented and kind employee. Taneja also owns Passage To India Bakery & Cafe in Fremont.

Police said Sarkar rented a room in the house he was found deceased in, and shared the house with another family, who were also renters. Officers responded to the home after receiving 911 calls from multiple people who heard gunshots, including the family who lived inside the house, according to Tegner.

Police said the case is being treated as a homicide.

A witness told police he heard gunshots, then saw a man walk away from the front door and ride away on a bicycle.

Tegner said the incident did not appear to be random.

“There’s no evidence of any sort of struggle or a robbery like ransacking, the place was neat and orderly,” he said. He also noted there were not “obvious signs of forced entry” at the home.

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Pittsburg: Suspect identified in Sept. 17 homicide Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call the Fremont Police Department at 510-790-6800. To send an anonymous tip, text TIP FremontPD followed by your short tip to 888-777.

Fremont’s first homicide this year was the Feb. 17 shooting of Holly Lynn Dreyer, 49, in her home on Third Street. Police believe it was a murder-suicide by her husband.

Staff writer Joseph Geha contributed to this report.