SAN JOSE >> A 74-year-old Fresno man has been charged with fatally shooting his daughter-in-law last week in the South San Jose parking lot of the Walmart where she worked, possibly out of anger over her plans to divorce his son, authorities said.

A police investigation that led to the arrest of Sital Singh Dosanjh revealed that the victim was on the phone Friday afternoon telling her uncle about her fear that Donsanjh was looking for her. She also reportedly told her uncle that she saw Donsanjh driving in the lot, indicating that he traveled 150 miles to find her.

The uncle told police that her niece sounded “frightened” and that Donsanjh was approaching her car, where she was taking a break from work.

That was the last thing the uncle said he heard before the phone call disconnected. Five hours later, a Walmart co-worker discovered Gurpreet Kaur Dosanjh’s body in the same lot, in the same car, suffering from at least two gunshot wounds. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

As homicide detectives and other officers were investigating the shooting, the victim’s uncle, who was the last person to hear his niece alive, drove from the Central Valley and arrived at the crime scene. Police said he helped investigators formally identify Sital Dosanjh as the likely suspect.

The next morning, Sital Dosanjh was arrested at his home in Fresno. During a search of the residence, police seized a .22-caliber Beretta pistol, according to a police investigative summary accompanying a murder charge filed Wednesday by Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office.

Sital Dosanjh was transported to the Main Jail in San Jose, where he has been held without bail. During his arraignment in a San Jose courtroom Wednesday, he was clad in a red jumpsuit reserved for high-security inmates, had a blue surgical mask over his face and did not speak. He did not enter a plea and was ordered to return to court Nov. 14.

The discovery of the victim was reported at 6:13 p.m. Friday. According to the investigation, the tragic phone call with her uncle occurred around 1 p.m. Detectives found that surveillance video showed that Sital Dosanjh’s black Silverado pickup truck was seen entering the parking lot at 1:17 p.m., driving up near his daughter-in-law’s car at 1:23 p.m., then leaving the lot at 1:30 p.m.

The detectives also determined that license plate reading cameras in Gilroy, surveillance cameras on Pacheco Pass and Sital Dosanjh’s cellphone records charted his drive back to Fresno over the next few hours.

According to the police summary, Gurpreet Kaur Dosanjh’s uncle told investigators that his niece “was in the process of divorcing (the) suspect’s son,” and that the husband and his father lived in Fresno. Gurpreet Kaur Dosanjh lived in San Jose, according to the investigation.

The shooting marked the city’s 28th homicide of the year. The same number of homicides had been recorded in San Jose at the same point in 2021.

Anyone with information about the shooting can contact the SJPD homicide Detective Sgt. Rafael Varela at 3638@sanjoseca.gov or Detective Jose Montoya at 3644@sanjoseca.gov, or call 408-277-5283. Tips also can be left with Silicon Valley Crime Stoppers at 408-947-7867 or at svcrimestoppers.org.