A Texas man was arrested on Thursday and accused of killing a 21-year-old nursing student in Houston, after he was identified via footage from a security camera the student had set up in her apartment. Bobby Singh Shah, 51, was charged with capital murder days after police found Muna Pandey, 21, dead inside her apartment on Monday with multiple gunshot wounds, police announced . Several of Pandey’s friends told detectives that she lived alone and had installed a motion-activated camera outside her front door a year ago after having an issue with a stalker, according to a warrant obtained by HuffPost.
One friend told police he last heard from the victim on Saturday, Aug. 24, when she sent him a video over Instagram, according to the warrant. He said the two made plans to go out with some friends for a birthday party, but she never showed up.
Pandey’s friend called her phone at around 9:17 p.m. that night, but there was no answer and her phone was set to “do not disturb,” police said in the warrant.
Shah’s neighbor told police that he heard a loud thumping coming from Pandey’s apartment at around 8:30 p.m. Saturday, according to the warrant.
He had not seen the victim since then. Surveillance footage taken from Pandey’s camera showed Pandey in front of her apartment on Saturday at around 8:40 p.m.
holding a Nike shoe box, a shopping bag and a black purse. Shah was allegedly standing next to her, holding a black pistol in his right hand. Shah told Pandey to open th.