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An Indian engineer was killed and two others injured when an American man opened fire on them after allegedly yelling "get out of my country", with the local police calling it as a "possible hate crime".

Srinivas Kuchibhotla, 32, working at the Garmin headquarters in Olathe, was killed in the shooting on Wednesday night, while another Indian and his colleague Alok Madasani was critically injured and is battling for life at a local hospital.

One other identified as Ian Grillot was also injured in the shooting.

The accused, Adam Purinton, 51, was arrested on Thursday morning, five hours after the incident.

"It was a tragic and senseless act of violence," Olathe Police Chief Steven Menke told media persons.

According to local media reports, he yelled "get out of my country" at the Indians.

Purinton, a navy veteran, later reportedly told a bartender in Clinton, Missouri, where he was hiding that he killed two Middle Eastern persons, the Kansas City Star said.

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 shooting victim. 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 $2 million.

 

According to Garmin, Kuchibhotla and Madasani worked in the company's aviation systems.

"We're 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.

The alleged hate crime has sent shocked waves among Indian-American and the Indian community across the United States.

"Our thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends of Srinivas Kuchibhotla," said Jay Kansara, director of Government Relations at Hindu American Foundation.

"We are also praying for a speedy recovery for the injured. We call upon the US Department of Justice and local law enforcement to investigate this murder as what it is, a hate crime.

"Anything less will be an injustice to the victims and their families," he said.

Kansara said that the HAF thanks those who put themselves at risk to stop this attack or to bring the perpetrator to justice.

"It is these acts of heroism in our communities that make America great," he said.

A GoFundMe page has also been set up to help raise funds for sending Kuchibhotla's remains to India.

The shooting incident comes at a time when hate crimes and acts of bigotry have risen notably during the recent months in America.

A Jewish cemetery was vandalised in St Louis, Missouri last week and the offices of Jewish civil society organisations have received bomb threats.

A man was removed from a Chicago-Houston flight after levelling racist taunts at Pakistani and Indian passengers.

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39 minutes ago, Vilander said:

mistaken for middle easterner. Indians should probably wear safron turbans where ever they go, what a sad situation. RIP 

I dont think even turbans will help as Sikhs are routine targets for hate crimes because they are mistaken for Muslims. 

 

On a side note, I dont know why many people still choose to emigrate to US or UK. If you work hard enough in India, there are still lots of opportunities and you can make a good living here. No matter how open minded and welcoming these countries are, there will always be a section of people who will hate you for coming to their country and taking away their jobs.

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Scary stuff....if we can find any I mean any little hope from this news is that American guy who tried to put himself in the way of harm amidst this madness.....humanity is still a little bit alive I guess

 

RIP to the family of the Indian engineer and hope the other 2 recover soon with no other issues.

 

This is scary...ICFr's in more volatile parts of USA...stay safe

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1 hour ago, kubrickian said:

I dont think even turbans will help as Sikhs are routine targets for hate crimes because they are mistaken for Muslims. 

 

On a side note, I dont know why many people still choose to emigrate to US or UK. If you work hard enough in India, there are still lots of opportunities and you can make a good living here. No matter how open minded and welcoming these countries are, there will always be a section of people who will hate you for coming to their country and taking away their jobs.

yeah i know but i ment the hindu turbans, but you are right haters will hate anyone. 

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2 hours ago, kubrickian said:

I dont think even turbans will help as Sikhs are routine targets for hate crimes because they are mistaken for Muslims. 

 

On a side note, I dont know why many people still choose to emigrate to US or UK. If you work hard enough in India, there are still lots of opportunities and you can make a good living here. No matter how open minded and welcoming these countries are, there will always be a section of people who will hate you for coming to their country and taking away their jobs.

In India there is so much cut throat competetion that you have to blessed with very good IQ plus hard working attitude to succeed  while in US an Good or average plus in study of India can make very good money .My brother who is software engineer told me how there are some guys and gals who were quite average in India but with their parental money they went to USA did MS and then had offers from Yahoo and other big companies which in India you can only dream of

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7 hours ago, kubrickian said:

I dont think even turbans will help as Sikhs are routine targets for hate crimes because they are mistaken for Muslims. 

 

On a side note, I dont know why many people still choose to emigrate to US or UK. If you work hard enough in India, there are still lots of opportunities and you can make a good living here. No matter how open minded and welcoming these countries are, there will always be a section of people who will hate you for coming to their country and taking away their jobs.

Because there is also a section of people in our country, who will hate you no matter what you do- either coz you are not a muslim/christian or because of caste.

The main reason why most of us chose to leave, is for work & education. The main reason why many of us chose to settle overseas and not come back, is because in places like Canada, western-Europe, USA (USA is the bottom of this pile btw), there is rule of law. You can do whatever you want within the realms of the law. Nobody can come here and assault me for wearing the wrong thing or disrespecting their culture, etc and get away with it. Even if it is a racist mob, they'd get shafted by the law if i wanted to pursue a case. In India, nobody cares about rule of law. Nobody sees assaulting people as a criminal offence and even if you get beat up in front of a policeman, the police will look frustrated and dismissive if you wanted to register a case. 
And there is no freedom, if you don't have the right to express yourself in new, unique ways without getting assaulted. 
Atleast that is why i decided not to come back to India.


That and i wanted better education for my kids than what i had in India. Indian schools are brutal for children and while they learn a lot of things and become better at math & sciences at an earlier age, they lack social skills and schools in INida are nothing more than a grinder, which will grind you to dust. Not the life i wanted for my kids, who i wanted to grow up enjoying education, music, sports, etc. And thankfully, they are !

 

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10 hours ago, kubrickian said:

I dont think even turbans will help as Sikhs are routine targets for hate crimes because they are mistaken for Muslims. 

 

On a side note, I dont know why many people still choose to emigrate to US or UK. If you work hard enough in India, there are still lots of opportunities and you can make a good living here. No matter how open minded and welcoming these countries are, there will always be a section of people who will hate you for coming to their country and taking away their jobs.

By the end of Trump's term (particularly if we have a recession - its due ), You will see mass ghar wapsi - atleast the ones who are not citizens. 

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9 hours ago, Singh bling said:

In India there is so much cut throat competetion that you have to blessed with very good IQ plus hard working attitude to succeed  while in US an Good or average plus in study of India can make very good money .My brother who is software engineer told me how there are some guys and gals who were quite average in India but with their parental money they went to USA did MS and then had offers from Yahoo and other big companies which in India you can only dream of

 

This i agree. Indians in India are always under constant pressure to stay above the level. So they are more motivated to do well.  In US due to lack of competition not so skilled guys flourish. I know a B.Sc Botany guy is a senior java programmer lead in a big company.  Having said that , once they join they work hard and come up well. 

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This is a Trump enabled white supremacist. Make no mistake. Not just Indians. Jews have joined the list as well. When your country's leader openly talks about profiling people this is what happens. He is talking to a bunch of uneducated filthy gun owning scumbags. They don't have critical thinking. For them anyone with shade of brown is an alien they can target.  There are tons of Americans embrace Indians. But these morons were always there. But they were in the closet. Now they are coming out of the woodwork. SO many blacks are still harassed too.

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3 hours ago, Muloghonto said:

Because there is also a section of people in our country, who will hate you no matter what you do- either coz you are not a muslim/christian or because of caste.

The main reason why most of us chose to leave, is for work & education. The main reason why many of us chose to settle overseas and not come back, is because in places like Canada, western-Europe, USA (USA is the bottom of this pile btw), there is rule of law. You can do whatever you want within the realms of the law. Nobody can come here and assault me for wearing the wrong thing or disrespecting their culture, etc and get away with it. Even if it is a racist mob, they'd get shafted by the law if i wanted to pursue a case. In India, nobody cares about rule of law. Nobody sees assaulting people as a criminal offence and even if you get beat up in front of a policeman, the police will look frustrated and dismissive if you wanted to register a case. 
And there is no freedom, if you don't have the right to express yourself in new, unique ways without getting assaulted. 
Atleast that is why i decided not to come back to India.


That and i wanted better education for my kids than what i had in India. Indian schools are brutal for children and while they learn a lot of things and become better at math & sciences at an earlier age, they lack social skills and schools in INida are nothing more than a grinder, which will grind you to dust. Not the life i wanted for my kids, who i wanted to grow up enjoying education, music, sports, etc. And thankfully, they are !

 

I'm sorry but that's a load of crap. You will find problems in any country, no country is an utopia. That may be the situation 20-30 years ago. In India, you will find millions of people with a very comfortable standard of living which is almost as good as in West, perhaps not make as much money but still its not that bad as you're making it out to be. 

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12 hours ago, kubrickian said:

I dont think even turbans will help as Sikhs are routine targets for hate crimes because they are mistaken for Muslims. 

 

On a side note, I dont know why many people still choose to emigrate to US or UK. If you work hard enough in India, there are still lots of opportunities and you can make a good living here. No matter how open minded and welcoming these countries are, there will always be a section of people who will hate you for coming to their country and taking away their jobs.

I have lived in India (about 2/3rd of my life) and US (about 1/3rd of my life) and the quality of life overall is night and day. Also, incidents such as these are pretty rare. You are more likely to be a victim of road rage in India than an incident such as this.

 

Also, what you see in the news here is not what you get necessarily here. It seems like this guy was a Navy vet and deranged. I used to work at a company where my best buddy there was also a Navy vet, who spent 20 years in the navy. I and that guy got along so well. We worked on so many projects together, went out for lunches together and generally shared a lot of details about our personal lives. Great guy and he had no problems being the best of friends with a brown guy like me.

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2 hours ago, Texan said:

I have lived in India (about 2/3rd of my life) and US (about 1/3rd of my life) and the quality of life overall is night and day. Also, incidents such as these are pretty rare. You are more likely to be a victim of road rage in India than an incident such as this.

 

Also, what you see in the news here is not what you get necessarily here. It seems like this guy was a Navy vet and deranged. I used to work at a company where my best buddy there was also a Navy vet, who spent 20 years in the navy. I and that guy got along so well. We worked on so many projects together, went out for lunches together and generally shared a lot of details about our personal lives. Great guy and he had no problems being the best of friends with a brown guy like me.

Good for you but it doesnt have anything to do with what I said. I was just wondering why some people have to leave their friends and family and their own place behind just so they can make a bit more money abroad. Its not the same situation as 20 years ago in India. Some of my friends who are working in IT typically earn 1.5 - 2 lakhs per month and that money goes a long way in India. They are not particularly great programmers either. There are millions of people like that in India who are employed in IT and other business sectors. Hell, even call center employees earn 50k and more nowadays and that requires almost no skills.

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The folks who have the right to ask others to "leave" their country are the Indians, the red ones 

 

Many of the people who call America their country now are decendents of sea pirates who began to cheat and rob the natives 

 

Many believe that 1492 as the year the continent was discovered by human beings when tons of human beings were already living on the continent

 

The sea pirates eventually created a government which became a becon of freedom to human beings. Many of the sea pirates who created the new government, a becon of freedom, owned slaves 

 

:p:

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16 hours ago, kubrickian said:

I'm sorry but that's a load of crap. You will find problems in any country, no country is an utopia. That may be the situation 20-30 years ago. In India, you will find millions of people with a very comfortable standard of living which is almost as good as in West, perhaps not make as much money but still its not that bad as you're making it out to be. 

I dont disagree on the comfort factor. But i completely disagree on the law and order factor. I still go back to India every few years and its law and order situation that I think is the decisive issue for me. That my rights in India are not protected, i am actually at the mercy of the Gundaas, especially if they are political Gundaas. That is something i definitely fear in India and definitely don't fear in the west.

The schooling factor is a close second for the kids- like i said, i want my kids to have a complete education, not just become insanely good at math/science and be lacking in music, sports and social/community skills.

The other thing is, I am Canadian - which means, i don't pay extra to get quality medical service, it is covered in my taxes. I understand how people living in the states don't see this perk compared to India, but i am hugely thankful to live in a nation where how much money you have/are willing to spend is never an issue about major, life-threatening procedures for anyone.

 

Last but not the least, the pollution & smog of India, compared to the crisp & clean air in most of Canada (only Toronto has smog issues here) and the overall uncleanliness of our cities- with open garbage dumps everywhere, open sewers, etc. is a big drop in quality of life than here.

 

The quality of life here is much greater than what i find in India. Yes, you can have lots of money in India today and amenities. But here, the culture is so much greater in variety and quantity. I can go out every night in this part of the world and have choices between dozens of plays, stand-up comedy, opera, live music to chose from each and every day. In India, the options are 1/10th as much. So i chose to live overseas, because i find the overall quality of life here is much greater, the society is a lot more functional, things get done at speed of light compared to India and my children have a much healthier environment & much more rounded education growing up. 

 

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16 hours ago, Muloghonto said:

Because there is also a section of people in our country, who will hate you no matter what you do- either coz you are not a muslim/christian or because of caste.

The main reason why most of us chose to leave, is for work & education. The main reason why many of us chose to settle overseas and not come back, is because in places like Canada, western-Europe, USA (USA is the bottom of this pile btw), there is rule of law. You can do whatever you want within the realms of the law. Nobody can come here and assault me for wearing the wrong thing or disrespecting their culture, etc and get away with it. Even if it is a racist mob, they'd get shafted by the law if i wanted to pursue a case. In India, nobody cares about rule of law. Nobody sees assaulting people as a criminal offence and even if you get beat up in front of a policeman, the police will look frustrated and dismissive if you wanted to register a case. 
And there is no freedom, if you don't have the right to express yourself in new, unique ways without getting assaulted. 
Atleast that is why i decided not to come back to India.


That and i wanted better education for my kids than what i had in India. Indian schools are brutal for children and while they learn a lot of things and become better at math & sciences at an earlier age, they lack social skills and schools in INida are nothing more than a grinder, which will grind you to dust. Not the life i wanted for my kids, who i wanted to grow up enjoying education, music, sports, etc. And thankfully, they are !

 

Curling is not a sport!!!!!!

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