New York sources have stated that Indian origin man was killed and another injured by a former Navy serviceman who mistook them for “Middle Easterners” and the man was also shot and injured a non-Indian American who is hailed as a hero as he tried to protect the two during the attack on Wednesday night in Olathe, Kansas State.
Srinivas Kuchibhotla died and Alok Madasani was injured when Adam W. Purinton shot them at a bar after telling them “get out of my country” and the Hindu American Foundation’s (HAF) called the attacks a hate crime. But officials had not classified it a hate crime as of Thursday nightt, saying they were investigating the angle.
Ian Grillot, 24, who came to their rescue and Madasani were in hospital recovering from their injuries. Purinton was arrested in Clinton city of neighboring Missouri State when a bartender reported to police about him saying that he had killed “two Middle Eastern men”, according to local police quoted by The Star. According to his profile on LinkedIn, Kuchibhotla, 32, graduated from the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University in Hyderabad in 2005 with an electrical engineering degree.
It was stated that he had received a master’s degree from the University of Texas in El Paso and was working as aviation programs manager with Garmin, an electronics manufacturer best known for its consumer navigation systems.
