Gurpreet Kaur Dosanjh

Gurpreet Kaur Dosanjh, an Indian-American woman living in San Jose, California, was killed on September 30, 2022. She was an employee at a Walmart on Almaden Expressway and was in the process of divorcing her husband.

That afternoon, around 1 p.m., Gurpreet was taking a break in her car in the Walmart parking lot while on the phone with her uncle. She sounded frightened as she told him she had just seen her father-in-law, Sital Singh Dosanjh, driving his black Silverado pickup truck in the lot. She expressed fear that he was looking for her, noting that he must have traveled 150 miles from his home in Fresno. Gurpreet told her uncle that Sital was approaching her car, and then the phone call abruptly disconnected.

About five hours later, a co-worker discovered Gurpreet in her car. She had suffered at least two gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene. As police began their investigation, Gurpreet’s uncle, who was the last person to hear her alive, drove from the Central Valley to the crime scene. He helped investigators formally identify 74-year-old Sital Dosanjh as the likely suspect.

Detectives found surveillance video that showed Sital's truck entering the parking lot at 1:17 p.m., driving near Gurpreet’s car, and leaving by 1:30 p.m. Using license plate readers, surveillance cameras, and cell phone records, police charted Sital’s drive back to Fresno. He was arrested at his home the next morning. During a search of the residence, police seized a .22-caliber Beretta pistol. Authorities believed the motive was anger over Gurpreet’s plans to divorce Sital’s son.

Sital Dosanjh was charged with murder and transported to the Main Jail in San Jose, where he was held without bail. At his arraignment, he wore a red jumpsuit reserved for high-security inmates and did not enter a plea. Following a two-week murder trial, a jury found Sital Singh Dosanjh, then 77, guilty of murdering his daughter-in-law. “A guilty verdict can never bring back Gurpreet or erase her family’s pain, but it does bring a measure of justice that can hopefully help her family find closure,” Deputy District Attorney Carolyn Malinsky said after the conviction. As of October 2025, the guilty verdict was the latest development in the case.