Ranjana Shrestha, 37, a female of South Asian ethnicity, was found shot to death in the early morning hours of August 9, 2025, at a residence in Dallas’s Oak Cliff neighborhood. Police were dispatched around 2:10 a.m. to the 1900 block of Dudley, where they located two victims who were pronounced dead at the scene: Ranjana Shrestha, 37, female, and her three-year-old son, Pranish Pradhan. The Dallas County Medical Examiner later formally identified both victims.
According to Dallas police, the incident was investigated as an apparent murder-suicide. Detectives reported that the suspected shooter, identified as 53-year-old Lalit Pradhan, was found with a gunshot wound and multiple lacerations and was transported to a hospital, where he later died. Preliminary findings indicated that he shot Ranjana Shrestha, 37, female, and their child before turning the gun on himself.
No arrests were made in connection with the killing of Ranjana Shrestha, 37, female, as the suspected shooter died shortly after the incident. Local and diaspora outlets reported on the case in the days that followed, echoing the police account that this was a domestic murder-suicide and noting the identification of the victims by authorities.
