A 32-year-old Indian-American doctor has been shot dead under mysterious circumstances in a car in the US state of Michigan.
Ramesh Kumar, who worked in the Urology Department of the Henry Ford Hospital, was found dead on the passenger seat of a car in a rest area, some 90 miles out of Detroit, on late Thursday evening.
Police are investigating the case to ascertain the cause of his death.The family members of Dr Kumar say they do not suspect anyone and have ruled out the possibility of it being an incident of hate crime.
“We do not know (the reason for his murder). They (The police) are yet to find out,” his father Narendra Kumar, a former president of the influential American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI), told .
“We do not suspect anything. We do not think, it was a hate crime,” said a shocked Kumar.Dr Kumar was a medical graduate from the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences in Kochi.
