A man accused of killing a Texas college student “execution-style” at her apartment has a history of prowling sugar daddy dating websites for young women, authorities said.
A female tipster told cops she once met Bobby Singh Shah, 51 — who was charged Thursday with capital murder in the death of Muna Pandey, 21 — on a dating site that connects rich older men with much younger women, according to court documents cited by ABC 13.
Pandey, a community college student from Nepal, was found with a gunshot wound in the back of her head inside her southwest Houston apartment Monday.
Pandey, who lived alone, had installed a surveillance camera outside her front door after she was previously harassed by a stalker, her friends told Houston police, according to the station.
Footage from the camera allegedly revealed images of Shah entering and leaving her apartment Sunday, according to cops, who arrested him Wednesday.
In the footage, Pandey can reportedly be heard asking a man holding a gun, “What are you going to do?”
The suspect then racks the gun and pushes her inside the apartment at 8:41 p.m. — before leaving roughly an hour later, carrying her black purse, according to the station.
A woman contacted the Houston police earlier this week after the department released footage of the attacker leaving Pandey’s home in an effort to identify the man.
The caller told cops she instantly recognized Shah, and had met him on a “sugar daddy” website 12 years ago, according to police charging documents.
Police believe Pandey, who was found with multiple gunshot wounds, knew her attacker and that he took her cellphone after killing her.
Pandey was a nursing student at Houston Community College and worked at a local phone store.
“We demand justice for Muna Pandey, my dear friend and former roommate, who was tragically taken from us,” her former roommate Orusha Niraula wrote in a Facebook post. “[She] was always full of life, kindness, and joy.”
