Authorities in Texas tracked down a suspect in the murder of a 21-year-old nursing student after a tipster recognized him from a profile on a “sugar daddy” website.
Muna Pandey, a Nepalese nursing student at Houston Community College, was found shot to death in her Houston apartment on Monday, August 26th.
A neighbour later told police that they had heard a “loud noise” coming from her apartment on the evening of Saturday, August 24, which was also the last time friends and family saw Pandy alive.
According to the complaint, an unidentified man called her building manager to inform him of the body in her apartment, but then quickly hung up. Retrieved from People.
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Suspect Bobby Singh Shah, 51, was arrested by Houston police and charged with murder. (Houston Police Department)
Two days later, 51-year-old Bobby Singh Shah was arrested and charged with murder, Houston police said in a statement.
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A friend of Pandey's told police he had bought the security camera because the young woman had previously been stalked, and police eventually found Shah on Pandey's security camera footage, according to the complaint.
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Security camera footage from August 24 shows Pandey standing on her front door with shopping bags when a man, whom police now believe to be Shah, forces her into an apartment at gunpoint. An hour later, Shah is reportedly seen leaving the apartment with one of the bags.
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After police released the CCTV footage, they received a call from a nearby restaurant where Pandey's former employer was located, saying the man in the footage resembled Shah, a regular customer at the establishment.
According to the lawsuit, on Aug. 28, a woman called Houston police and said she “immediately” recognized the man in the video as Shah from the “sugar daddy” website.
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A still image from Pandey's home surveillance system distributed by Houston Police and which led to the identification of Bobby Singh Shah. (Fox 26 Houston)
Houston police said in a statement that Shah was arrested on a traffic violation Wednesday. He is being held without bail, according to Harris County District Court records.
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An attorney representing him did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
“He's excited to be able to put this case behind him and prove his innocence,” said Shah's attorney, Wilvin Carter. He told KHOU 11.
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A GoFundMe effort has been started to help Pandey's mother cover travel expenses from Nepal to Houston, as well as funeral costs for her only child.
“No mother should have to go through this heartbreak, especially one who comes from so far away,” the fundraiser reads.
