On the morning of Thursday, September 25, 2025, 44-year-old Lisa Marie Stanley, a female from Orangefield in Orange County, Texas, was shot inside her home near the 3700 block of Granger Lane. Deputies were dispatched at 10:57 a.m. and found Lisa Marie Stanley gravely wounded; she was initially taken by ambulance to a Beaumont hospital and then moved to Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston for advanced care.
Despite emergency treatment, she died at the hospital on Saturday, September 27, 2025, at approximately 1:48 p.m.
Investigators quickly identified a suspect, 76-year-old Joseph P. Pitre Jr., described in reports as a neighbor. After the shooting, he left the scene and was located on a nearby property along Granger Lane. As deputies approached, he went into a structure; a single gunshot was heard, and he was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted wound. With the suspected gunman deceased, authorities determined there was no ongoing threat to the public.
During the initial response, Orangefield ISD and nearby daycares enacted precautionary lockdowns due to the proximity of the crime scene. The sheriff’s office processed the scene, gathered witness statements, and confirmed that the shooting prompted an extensive search before the suspect was found. Community reports emphasized the suddenness of the violence and its impact on the tight-knit area.
Local outlets and public databases documented the sequence of events and timing of the victim’s death, noting the Thursday shooting and her passing two days later. Obituaries subsequently listed her death on September 27, 2025, in Houston.
No arrests were made in connection with the killing of 44-year-old Lisa Marie Stanley. The sole identified suspect, Joseph P. Pitre Jr., died by suicide shortly after the attack, closing the immediate search and leaving investigators without a living person to charge.
