Atlanta sources reported that 26 year old University of Missouri, Kansas City student from Warangal in India was fatally shot in the back as he ran from a would-be robber at the restaurant where he worked, reports the Kansas City Star. Meanwhile Sharath Koppula, was critically injured when the man fired at him at about 7 pm last Friday and was rushed to a hospital, where he succumbed.
Furthermore the police released a video of the suspect inside the J’s Fish and Chicken Market restaurant moments before the shooting, and have asked the help of the community in identifying the killer. Moreover Sharath hailed from Warangal town. After engineering, he was employed at a software firm in Hyderabad. He moved to the US to do MS this year. Accordingly “He had a great sense of humor, always made people laugh and was always eager to lend a helping hand”.
Moreover Sharath’s father Ram Mohan, who is employed in BSNL, has appealed
to Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj and Telangana’s NRI Minister K.T. Rama Rao to
help in bringing the body home. Further Koppu was related to the owner
of J’s Fish and Chicken, which has three locations in Kansas City, where three
or four customers were in the store at the time of the attempted robbery, as
well as several employees behind the counter, a restaurant worker told Kansas
City Star.
