Police: Fresno man fatally shot daughter-in-law in South San Jose shooting
SAN JOSE — A 74-year-old Fresno man arrested over the weekend in connection with a fatal shooting Friday evening in South San Jose killed his daughter-in-law, authorities said.
Sital Singh Dosanjh was arrested early Saturday in his home in Fresno, according to San Jose police.
At 6:13 p.m. the previous day, police were called to a Walmart parking lot in the 5000 block of Almaden Expressway, near Highway 85, for a report of an unresponsive woman found inside a car. Responding officers soon determined she had been shot.
She was pronounced dead at the scene; her name has not been publicly released pending her formal identification and notification of next of kin by the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office.
An ensuing investigation quickly identified Dosanjh as a suspect in the shooting, police said. They alerted regional law-enforcement agencies, and he was tracked to Fresno, where he was arrested with the help of Fresno police and the Fresno County Gang Task Force.
Dosanjh was transported to San Jose on Saturday, when he was booked into the Santa Clara County Main Jail. He is being held without bail and his arraignment was tentatively scheduled for Wednesday.
A source familiar with the police investigation told this news organization that Dosanjh’s son was married to the victim. Additional details, including the motive of the shooting, were not publicly disclosed.
The Friday shooting marked the city’s 28th homicide of the year. The same number of homicides had been recorded in San Jose at the same point in 2021.
Anyone with information about the shooting can contact the SJPD homicide Detective Sgt. Rafael Varela at 3638@sanjoseca.gov or Detective Jose Montoya at 3644@sanjoseca.gov, or call 408-277-5283. Tips can also be left with Silicon Valley Crime Stoppers at 408-947-7867 or at svcrimestoppers.org.