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Local police have admitted that they failed to find a dangerous stalker for months before he allegedly went on to murder a 38-year-old woman in California last week.
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Sacramento County Sheriff's Office deputies confirmed they had probable cause to arrest Rohit Rohit, 22, after he violated a restraining order in July.
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However, deputies could not locate him, and he went on to kill Shalini Thakur on September 8 despite her having secured the protective order against him, cops said.
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Horrifying surveillance footage showed how Rohit, a DoorDash delivery driver from India who entered the US illegally in 2023, chased Thakur before shooting her dead outside a Panera Bread in Sacramento just before 3pm, according to police.
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Rohit fled in a vehicle but shot himself dead after police pulled him over, the sheriff's office said.
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Now, the victim's heartbroken mother, Sudesh Kumari, has been left to grieve the loss of her only child, just two years after the death of her husband.
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Kumari sobbed at Thakur's funeral in Sacramento on Monday as she watched her daughter's body pass before her in a wooden casket.
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Tara Singh, a community representative from the Guru Nanak Sat Sangat of California, a Sikh temple nonprofit which attended the service, said Kumari has been struggling to come to terms with the loss of her child.
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The victim's heartbroken mother, Sudesh Kumari, pictured above in white, has been left to grieve the loss of her only child just two years after the death of her husband
Shalini Thakur, 38, was shot dead in broad daylight by a 22-year-old DoorDash worker who illegally entered the US in August 2023, cops said
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Today, Mom is saying, "Please let me go with her, and I can't be living all my life alone,"' Singh told CBS News.
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Indian-born Thakur was a beloved waitress at the IHOP in Arden-Arcade.
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She touched so many people that several customers turned up to her funeral.
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Most of her family lives in India, so her mother and uncle were the only relatives able to attend the memorial service on Monday.
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Thakur's friend, Satinder Dulai, remembered her for her bright spirit.
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'She was a lady with a vibrant personality,' Dulai told CBS.
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'She had a bubbly personality.
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She had a lot of goals.
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And I think one by one, she was completing them.
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'I want to honor her heart and her kindness,' said Melinda Willey, a regular IHOP customer who formed a friendship with Thakur.
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Several mourners also slammed the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office for failing to protect Thakur from Rohit despite him being on their radar for months.
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The suspect, Rohit Rohit, was an illegal migrant from India who was allegedly released by the Biden administration
Thakur's funeral was held in Sacramento, California on Monday and attended by her mother
'He was an illegal person in this country and she has a restraining order.
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I don't know how the police department didn't take any action,' Singh said.
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Thakur was remembered by her family as 'caring, loving, selfless, and generous'
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Sacramento County Sheriff's Office Lieutenant Amar Gandhi said Thakur died just before 3pm on September 8, when Rohit approached her at the shopping mall where she worked on Howe Avenue and 'began to accost her.'
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'As the victim attempted to run away, Rohit chased her down, pulled out a firearm, and shot her multiple times,' he said.
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'The victim fell to the ground.'
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Gandhi added that Rohit then walked over to Thakur's body as she lay dying on the sidewalk, and 'shot her in the head at close range.'
Sheriff's deputies arrived at the scene and tracked Rohit's vehicle as he fled.
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They quickly located him and said he 'immediately slammed on his brakes'.
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'Deputies attempted to call out the driver for some time, but ultimately discovered that he was deceased from what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound,' Lieutenant Gandhi said.
Thakur, 38, had been stalked by Rohit for months before she died, law enforcement said
Homicide detectives were aware that Rohit had been harassing and stalking Thakur after meeting her through his DoorDash pickups from her workplace.
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The campaign of harassment dated back to at least January, when Thakur discovered an Apple AirTag he had planted under the hood of her car.
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Gandhi said Rohit's behavior became 'increasingly alarming,' and on one occasion, he deflated Thakur's tires and followed her to work so that he could offer her assistance.
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Rohit even obtained a copy of her apartment key and entered her home on Sierra Boulevard while she was sleeping, cops said.
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He claimed the next day that he snuck into her home as a welfare check after she did not respond to his messages.
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The series of troubling incidents prompted Thakur to obtain a restraining order against Rohit, which he breached in July by dropping off random grocery items at her front door.
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has blamed Biden's immigration policies for the tragedy, saying Rohit illegally entered the US via Arizona in 2023.
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Rohit was arrested by US Border Patrol agents in August of that year, but was 'released into the country by the Biden administration,' according to the DHS.
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Thakur was on the phone to her mother less than an hour before she died in Sacramento
Rohit was arrested by US Border Patrol agents in Arizona in August 2023, but was 'released into the country by the Biden administration', according to the DHS
Rohit managed to pass background checks to gain work with DoorDash by providing a Social Security number, sources told the Daily Mail.
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He had not made a delivery in more than six weeks and was not active on the platform on the day of the murder.
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A DoorDash spokesman expressed condolences for Thakur's family, and said the company is 'fully cooperating' with police as they investigate the case.
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'This is an unimaginable tragedy, and our hearts are with Ms Thakur's family and loved ones as they grieve this immense loss,' the spokesperson said.
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