{"id":136488,"date":"2025-08-11T08:36:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T08:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/136488\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T08:36:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T08:36:18","slug":"young-child-among-three-dead-in-north-texas-shooting-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/136488\/","title":{"rendered":"Young child among three dead in North Texas shooting, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  Police investigate suspected double murder-suicide at Oak Cliff home <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/d50710bcf09561cf081f122b063c5503.jpg\"   class=\"temp__img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/video\/police-investigate-suspected-double-murder-suicide-at-oak-cliff-home\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>          Police investigate suspected double murder-suicide at Oak Cliff home<\/p>\n<p>          00:34<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>A 3-year-old boy and a 37-year-old woman were among three people who died in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/three-dead-shooting-oak-cliff-dallas-dudley-street\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">shooting at a home in Oak Cliff<\/a>\u00a0early Saturday morning, according to the Dallas County Medical Examiner&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the shooting suspect, 53-year-old Lalit Pradhan \u2014 who also died \u2014 was known to both victims.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency crews responded before dawn<\/p>\n<p>Officers and Dallas Fire-Rescue responded around 2:10 a.m. Saturday to a shooting call at a residence in the 1900 block of Dudley Avenue in Oak Cliff.<\/p>\n<p>Victims identified by Medical Examiner&#8217;s Office<\/p>\n<p>The Medical Examiner&#8217;s Office identified the child as Pranish Pradhan and the woman as Ranjana Shrestha. Their place of death was listed as 1918 Dudley Avenue, according to the medical examiner&#8217;s report.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said two victims were pronounced dead at the scene. Pradhan was found with an apparent gunshot wound and several lacerations. He was transported to a hospital, where he later died, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Police have not released the nature of Lalit Pradhan&#8217;s relationship to the other two victims.<\/p>\n<p>Investigation remains ongoing<\/p>\n<p>Dallas police said the investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective C. Fehrenbach at (214) 671-3671 or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/oak-cliff-shooting-child-woman-suspect-killed\/mailto:cody.fehrenbach@dallaspolice.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">cody.fehrenbach@dallaspolice.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More details to come<\/p>\n<p>CBS News Texas will provide additional details as they become available.<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/doug-myers\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Doug  Myers<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Doug Myers is a digital content producer for CBS Texas. A longtime journalist, Doug has worked for four newspapers in Texas and Louisiana and for three television stations in Texas. He has also spent time as a digital content manager for a national trade association and as communications director for a state agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police investigate suspected double murder-suicide at Oak Cliff home Police investigate suspected double murder-suicide at Oak Cliff home&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":136489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,8963,10429,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-136488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-north-texas","11":"tag-oak-cliff","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115009223851663226","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}