Kansas shooting: More than $1M raised for kin of Srinivas Kuchibhotla, two other men injured in inci

[Margarita]

Four crowdfunding pages were set up to help the families of the three victims of last week's shooting at a bar in Kansas, US.

Crowdfunding efforts to help the families of the victims of the Kansas bar shooting in which Hyderabad engineer Srinivas Kuchibhotla lost his life have managed to raise more than $1 million.

Following the shooting, four crowdfunding pages were set up on crowdfunding forum GoFundMe to help the kin of Kuchibhotla and the other two men - Alok Madasani and Ian Grillot - who were wounded in the shooting.

Madasani, also an Indian, is Kuchibhotla's co-worker at GPS device-maker Garmin and has been discharged from the hospital. Grillot, meanwhile, is being hailed as a hero after he lunged at suspected gunman, Adam Purinton, during the shooting. The 24-year-old American was injured in the process.

A GoFundMe spokeswoman said the outpouring to support on the four funds involves more than 26,000 donations from all US states, the District of Columbia and 39 countries.

US OFFICIALS CONDEMN INCIDENT

The United States government has assured India that a thorough investigation will be conducted, with the governors of the states of Kansas and Missouri joining the list of US officials who have strongly condemned the shooting.

Kansas Governor Sam Brownback said, "The friends and family of Srinivas Kuchibhotla are in our prayers. We hope for a speedy recovery for the other men who were shot."

Missouri Governor Eric Greitens, meanwhile, said that violence has no place in his state. The gunman was arrested from Missouri. Greitens further revealed that Purinton had admitted to committing the crime to a citizen.

"It was a concerned Missourian who is said to have alerted the police. The suspect had admitted the crime to her and asked her for a place to hide out. She took responsible and decisive action that led to the arrest," Greitens said in a statement.

'GET OUT OF MY COUNTRY'

The shooting took place Wednesday last week at Austins Bar and Grill in Olathe, Kansas. The bar, which had remained shut since the shooting, reopened on Saturday.

According to reports, Adam Purinton, the gunman, asked the two Indians about they type of visa they had and shouted 'get out of my country' before opening fire, suggesting that it was a racially-motivated hate crime.

Purinton was later arrested from a bar in the state of Missouri and remains jailed on charges of murder and attempted murder.

(With inputs from AP and PTI)

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[ito]

Very sad that he was killed. With half my family living in US, it concern me a lot. The irony is that he was killed because the man who killed him thought him to be a middle easterner.

 

[Thəorətic Muslim]

Very sad that he was killed. With half my family living in US, it concern me a lot. The irony is that he was killed because the man who killed him thought him to be a middle easterner.

It really depends on where your family is.

How seriously this is taken depends on the charges pressed, and the potential international implications if the charges are lenient. PM Modi's visit is only a few months away.

 

[TISSOT]

Very sad that he was killed. With half my family living in US, it concern me a lot. The irony is that he was killed because the man who killed him thought him to be a middle easterner.

What is the irony in that ? Indian do look like middle easterners.

If you are so concerned about your family in the US, why don't you ask them to come back to kerala ?

 

[ito]

It really depends on where your family is.

How seriously this is taken depends on the charges pressed, and the potential international implications if the charges are lenient. PM Modi's visit is only a few months away.

This is serious. And PM Modi has to take the issue with Trump.

What is the irony in that ? Indian do look like middle easterners.

If you are so concerned about your family in the US, why don't you ask them to come back to kerala ?

Some are US citizens and some have green cards. And their children don't know anything but US. So I doubt they will be come back to India.

By the way what is so special about Kerala?

 

[TISSOT]

Some are US citizens and some have green cards. And their children don't know anything but US. So I doubt they will be come back to India.

By the way what is so special about Kerala?

You are a malayalee, are you not ? .... and you have remade Kerala in your own image. Its only fitting they go back to kerala and not "gujarat".

If they are US citizens, then they have made their choice.

Trump is their president and they better tow the line if they want to live in the US.

 

[ito]

You are a malayalee, are you not ? .... and you have remade Kerala in your own image. Its only fitting they go back to kerala and not "gujarat".

If they are US citizens, then they have made their choice.

Trump is their president and they better tow the line if they want to live in the US.

No, I have never been to Kerala even once in my life, but would like to visit. By the way are you from Kerala ?

Just because they are US citizens, doesn't mean I will stop concerning about them. We are a family, so it is natural that I will care about them. Any way, they live in NYC and San Jose, more cosmopolitan and open cities.

 

[TISSOT]

No, I have never been to Kerala even once in my life, but would like to visit. By the way are you from Kerala ?

Just because they are US citizens, doesn't mean I will stop concerning about them. We are a family, so it is natural that I will care about them. Any way, they live in NYC and San Jose, more cosmopolitan and open cities.

I am. Where are you from ?

You are free to be concerned about your non Indian family members, just don't expect PM Modi to worry about them or raise their concern.

 

[ito]

I am. Where are you from ?

You are free to be concerned about your non Indian family members, just don't expect PM Modi to worry about them or raise their concern.

Do you know you are rude?

PM Modi will worry, moreover Modi was the first PM to reach to expats in a big way. You cannot expect Indian expats to invest millions of dollars in India, create jobs in India and not care about them?

 

[TISSOT]

Do you know you are rude?

PM Modi will worry, moreover Modi was the first PM to reach to expats in a big way. You cannot expect Indian expats to invest millions of dollars in India, create jobs in India and not care about them?

I am blunt.

Expats are people with Indian passports. Not people with American passports. They invest millions of $ in India for their own benefit, not with the express desire to "help" India. Lets cut the crap.

 

[ito]

I am blunt.

Expats are people with Indian passports. Not people with American passports. They invest millions of $ in India for their own benifit, not with the express desire to "help" India. Lets cut the crap.

man. Stop quoting me. There is no reason for you to be rude to me or even as you said 'blunt'.

 

[TISSOT]

man. Stop quoting me. There is no reason for you to be rude to me or even as you said 'blunt'.

There is no reason to be polite to you either

 

[ito]

There is no reason to be polite to you either

Who asked you to be polite to me? I am not polite even once to anyone here, but nether I was rude to anyone, unless the other person is a d**khead.

 

[TISSOT]

Who asked you to be polite to me? I am not polite even once to anyone here, but nether I was rude to anyone, unless the other person is a d**khead.

Then stop worrying about me being rude, blunt or polite and try and focus on the substance of my post.

 

[ito]

Then stop worrying about me being rude, blunt or polite and try and focus on the substance of my post.

Where is the substance in your post? You should have minded your own business instead of commenting on my family or my concerns about them. Now fk off. And don't quote me again.