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Zain Lodhi was a 9-year-old boy from Pleasant Valley, New York, in a Pakistani-American family whose lives unraveled in a matter of hours in late November 2013. By the time daylight settled over Dutchess County, state police would come to describe what happened as a murder-suicide driven from inside the home, leaving no stranger to hunt, no fugitive to chase—only a stunned community trying to understand how an ordinary morning could turn so final.

The first horror surfaced around 8:30 ...Read More
Victim Details

Zain Lodhi

Male

Southwest Asian (Indian / Pakistani)

Pleasant-valley

NY

2013-11-21

9

Zain

Lodhi

01/12/2026