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Indian-Americans will honour a United States citizen who was injured while trying to intervene during a racially-motivated shooting in Kansas that left an Indian techie dead and another Indian critically injured.
The US state of Kansas has recognised March 16 as 'Indian-American Appreciation Day' to honour an Indian techie who was killed last month in a racially-motivated hate crime.
Local officials in Lancaster, however, did not believe that Harnish Patel`s killing was a bias crime as investigations are on, The Herald reported.
In his first speech before a joint session of Congress, US President Donald Trump on Wednesday decried the Kansas shooting incident, in which Indian engineer Srinivas Kuchibhotla was killed.
The last rites of Indian techie Srinivas Kuchibhotla, who was shot dead in the US last week in a suspected hate crime, were performed on Tuesday at Jubilee Hills.
Indian techie Srinivas Kuchibhotla was killed and Alok Madasani was injured when Adam W Purinton, a white man, shot them at the Austins Bar & Grill in Olathe, Kansas state, on Wednesday.
A white US Navy veteran charged with murdering an Indian software engineer at a Kansas bar gazed stoically at a camera from jail and gave curt answers to a judge by video during his initial court appearance on Monday over the shooting, which federal authorities are probing as a possible hate crime.
The White House has termed the early reports of Kansas shooting, where an Indian engineer was shot to death in an alleged racial attack by a gunman as "disturbing".
Srinivas Kuchibhotla was killed and Alok Madasani was injured when Adam W Purinton shot them at the Austins Bar and Grill in Olathe, Kansas state, on Wednesday night.
Srinivas Kuchibhotla`s wife Sunayana Dumala, her brother, sister-in-law and another relative will accompany the body on Monday night.
Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu today condemned the killing of an Indian engineer in Kansas, saying the US government should respond to such incidents and take the "strongest action".
The Indian embassy in Washington said it is closely monitoring the tragic shooting incident in Kansas and providing all help and assistance to the family of Indian engineer Srinivas Kuchibhotla, who was shot dead in an apparent hate crime.
US lawmakers publicly denounced the killing of an Indian engineer by an American navy veteran in an apparent hate crime in Kansas City, saying there is no place for these senseless acts of violence in the country.
A 24-year old American Ian Grillot, who suffered injuries in his arm and chest while trying to tackle the shooter at a Kansas city bar who opened fire on two Indian men, is being hailed for his heroic efforts, however, he reckons he did what anyone else would have done at the time.
US President Donald Trump`s "America First" rhetoric on immigration and jobs has fuelled a climate of intolerance.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Friday expressed shock over the shooting incident in the US in which an Indian-origin man was killed and another injured, and said that two Indian Embassy officials have rushed to the state of Kansas where the incident took place.
"Saddened to learn about the death of Srinivas Kuchibotla and injuries to Alok Madasani in Kansas," tweeted Naidu on Friday.
The killing of an Indian-origin man shows the worst and the best of America -- the undercurrent of bigotry and the heroism and the generosity, which are often the dominant traits.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Friday expressed shock over the shooting incident in the US in which an Indian-origin man was killed and another injured.
Adam W Purinton, 51, reportedly shot dead Srinivas Kuchibhotla, 32, and injured Alok Madasani at around 7:15 pm on Wednesday.
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