Glamorous woman is killed in broad daylight by DoorDash worker, 22, who incessantly stalked her after Biden administration let him into the country
A 38-year-old woman, Shalini Thakur, was shot dead in broad daylight outside a Panera Bread restaurant in Sacramento, California, by a 22-year-old DoorDash delivery worker who had been stalking her for months. The suspect, named as Rohit Rohit, an Indian national who had entered the US illegally in 2023, chased Thakur down as she tried to flee before shooting her multiple times and then at close range while she lay on the ground. He fled the scene but was tracked down by sheriff's deputies, who found he had fatally shot himself in his vehicle.
Investigators said the harassment began at least as early as January, after Rohit met Thakur through his delivery pickups at her workplace; she later found a tracking device he had hidden on her car. His behaviour reportedly escalated to deflating her tyres, breaking into her apartment while she slept, and breaching a restraining order she had obtained by leaving groceries at her door in July. Thakur's mother, Kumari, said she had spoken to her daughter by phone shortly before the shooting and criticised police for failing to protect her despite repeated restraining order applications; the investigation remains ongoing.
- Sacramento woman, 38, shot dead by stalker outside a café
- Suspect, an illegal migrant DoorDash worker, later killed himself
- Victim had restraining order; mother says police failed to protect her
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Shalini Thakur, 38, was shot dead in daylight outside a Panera Bread restaurant in Sacramento, California. Police say the man responsible, a 22-year-old delivery driver named Rohit Rohit, had been stalking her for months before the attack and took his own life shortly afterwards.
The two are reported to have first crossed paths through his delivery work at her workplace, after which his behaviour is said to have escalated over several months, including planting a tracking device on her car, damaging her property and breaking into her home. Thakur had reportedly taken out a restraining order against him before her death, and questions have since been raised about whether more could have been done to protect her.
Rohit Rohit is reported to be an Indian national who entered the United States without legal authorisation in 2023. That detail has become part of the story because it touches on wider, contested debates in America about immigration enforcement and border policy, alongside the separate investigation into the killing itself.