The incident occurred at around 6:30 am (local time) when a suspect entered a bar at the 10th and Central Streets in Kansas City and opened fire. Nine people were shot in the gunfire.
Purinton, yelled, "Get out of my country," before shooting Kuchibhotla, who later died from injuries sustained in the attack.
Sunayana Dumala, whose 32-year-old husband Srinivas Kuchibhotla was killed in a hate crime earlier this year, had lost her permission to stay in the US
Adam Purinton has been indicted on federal hate crime and firearms charges for allegedly shooting and killing Indian techie Srinivas Kuchibhotla and injuring two others at a suburban Kansas City bar.
Indian-Americans will honour a 24-year-old American who was injured while trying to intervene during a racially-motivated shooting in Kansas that left an Indian techie dead and another injured.
Sunayana Dumala, the wife of Kansas shooting victim Srinivas Kuchibhotla, today remembered her husband on his 33rd birthday by sharing an emotional note on Facebook.
A fortnight after an Indian engineer was shot dead by a Navy veteran here, Kansas Governor San Brownback has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressing ‘profound regret’ at the terrible act of violence.
The mother of Indian engineer Srinivas Kuchibhotla who was killed in a suspected incident of hate crime in an American bar said she asked her son to come back to India if he felt threatened in the United States, but he said he was not in any danger.
As per a US media report, at least one bystander said the alleged shooter shouted “Get out of my country” before opening fire
By keeping mum on the killing of an Indian engineer in Kansas, President Donald Trump has "stoked" hate crime in America, a leading US daily has said, warning that his silence will "damage" the vitality and strength of the country.
The White House has said that the early reports coming from Kansas, where an Indian engineer was shot dead and another injured in an apparent hate crime, were "disturbing".
Purinton's neighbor in Olathe said he never heard him make a racist remark or talk politics.
US lawmakers have publicly denounced the killing of an Indian engineer by an American Navy veteran in an apparent hate crime in Kansas City, saying there is no place for these senseless acts of violence in the country.
The Trump administration has dismissed as "absurd" any correlation between US President Donald Trump's controversial remarks on immigrants and the Kansas shooting incident that resulted in the "tragic" death of an Indian engineer.
Sunayana Dumala, the wife of Indian engineer Srinivas Kuchibhotla, who was shot dead by an American Navy veteran, has said that ‘her husband didn’t deserved a death like this’ and wondered ‘what America will do to stop hate crimes against minorities’
The Indian Consulate in Houston said that it has been closely monitoring the tragic incident involving two Indian nationals in Kansas City bar.
Ian Grillot, a 24-year-old American has invited praise for the bravery he displayed while trying to stop a shooter who killed an Indian in Kansas City in what authorities have defined as a possible racial attack.
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