Indian killed in shooting in Kansas City bar in US; gunman who yelled ‘get out of my country' arrested
Highlights
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Gunman Adam Purinton was arrested on Thursday and has been charged with murder.
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Will make sure that the individual involved is held accountable: FBI agent Eric Jackson.
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2 senior officials of Indian Consulate in Houston sent to Kansas to aid victims' kin.
An Indian-origin engineer has been killed and two others injured in shooting in a bar in Kansas City in the United States.
Srinivas Kuchibhotla, who worked at the Garmin headquarters in Olathe area of Kansas, was killed in the shooting on Wednesday night, while another Indian and his colleague Alok Madasani was injured and has been discharged from the local hospital where he was undergoing treatment. Srinivas was a resident of Hyderabad. The other person injured in the shooting has been identified as Ian Grillot.
The gunman — 51-year-old Adam Purinton — was arrested on Thursday morning, 5 hours after the incident, and has been charged with murder and attempted murder.
WHO WAS SRINIVAS
Srinivas, 32, was working as an engineer at Germin International in Olathe area of Kansas since January 2014. Srinivas graduated in Electrical and Electronics engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technical University in Hyderabad during 2001-2005. After completing his B.Tech, Srinivas went to the US for his Masters degree.
Srinivas completed his Masters in Electrical and Electronics engineering from The University Of Texas at El Paso from 2005-2007.
After completing his studies, he stated working as a software engineer with Rockwell Collins and later in January 2014 he joined Germin International in Olathe as an aviation program engineer and manager. Srinivas' family is inconsolable after learning about his death.
According to a bartender at Austins Bar and Grill in Olathe in Kansas, Adam Purinton used “racial slurs” before he started shooting on Wednesday night as patrons were watching the University of Kansas-TCU basketball game on television.
INCIDENT A POSSIBLE HATE CRIME: POLICE
Purinton opened fire after allegedly yelling “get out of my country” at the Indians. The local police has called the incident a “possible hate crime”.
“It was a tragic and senseless act of violence,” Olathe Police Chief Steven Menke told reporters. FBI special agent Eric Jackson said, “We will make sure that the individual involved in this is held accountable for his actions.”
Purinton was taken into custody just after midnight on Thursday morning at an Applebee's about 70 miles to the southeast of Olathe in Clinton, Missouri, authorities said. A navy veteran, Purinton later reportedly told a bartender in Clinton, Missouri, where he was hiding that he killed two people from the Middle East.
INDIAN EMBASSY SWINGS INTO ACTION
Meanwhile, External Affairs Minister 
Sushma Swaraj has condoled the death of Srinivas Kuchibhotla.
Sushma Swaraj condoles Srinivas Kuchibhotla's death.
The Indian Embassy has swung into action and two senior officials of the Indian Consulate in Houston have been sent to Kansas to assist the victims' families.
“Consul Ravindra Joshi and Vice Consul Harpal Singh rushed to Kansas to assist the kin of shooting victims. They are on their way and will reach by evening,” the consulate said in a tweet.
The accused has been charged with premeditated first-degree murder and his bond has been set at USD 2 million.
According to Garmin, Kuchibhotla and Madasani worked in the company's aviation systems. “We are saddened that two Garmin associates were involved in last night's (Wednesday night) incident, and we express our condolences to the family and friends of our co-workers involved. Garmin will have grievance counsellors on-site and available for its associates today and tomorrow,” Garmin said in a statement.
