{"id":64100,"date":"2017-02-24T07:49:43","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T07:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=64100"},"modified":"2017-02-24T07:49:43","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T07:49:43","slug":"hyderabadi-shot-dead-in-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/hyderabadi-shot-dead-in-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyderabadi shot dead in USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Srinivas Kuchibhotla, an engineer from Hyderabad, was with his friend at a bar in Kansas when a man allegedly yelled &#8220;get out of my country&#8221; before shooting at them. Mr Kuchibhotla was killed. His friend, Alok Madasani, has been released from hospital. A witness who tried to intervene, Ian Grillot, was shot, but is expected to survive the attack.The shooter was a 51-year-old navy veteran.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj tweeted &#8220;I am shocked&#8221; and said she has promised assistance to Mr Kuchibhotla&#8217;s family including helping to bring the 32-year-old&#8217;s body back to Hyderabad.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-64102\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/C5Z3FK8XQAA0XG9.jpg\" alt=\"Hyderabadi shot dead in USA\" width=\"705\" height=\"434\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was catching up on Wednesday evening over a drink with his friend in Olathe, the fourth-largest town in Kansas with a population of about 130,000. Adam Purinton then started shouting at them calling them &#8220;Middle Eastern&#8221; and warning &#8220;get out of my country&#8221; before firing multiple rounds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Purinton managed to escape in the confusion that followed the shooting and was caught in Missouri over five hours later, where he told a staffer at a local bar that he had shot two Middle-Eastern men. The bartender called the police.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-64101\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/neil-vid.jpg\" alt=\"Hyderabadi shot dead in USA\" width=\"679\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/neil-vid.jpg 640w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/neil-vid-500x280.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Srinivas Kuchibhotla worked at an American multinational that makes GPS systems in Kansas. He joined the company in 2014. His wife, Sunayana Dumala, works in a technology company in the area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to his Facebook and LinkedIn profiles, Mr Kuchibhotla graduated from the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University in Hyderabad in 2005. He then got his Master&#8217;s in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at El Paso, where he taught as a research assistant before graduating in 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinivas Kuchibhotla, an engineer from Hyderabad, was with his friend at a bar in Kansas when a man allegedly yelled &#8220;get out of my country&#8221; before shooting at them. Mr Kuchibhotla was killed. His friend, Alok Madasani, has been released from hospital. 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