A Kansas man is accused of shooting and killing an Indian-American engineer he thought was Middle Eastern and wounding two others after shouting "get out of my country" and opening fire.
Adam Purinton was arrested after fleeing Austin's Bar and Grill, a suburban Kansas City restaurant that was packed Wednesday night when he allegedly blasted off several rounds at 7:15 p.m.
Cops arrested the 51-year-old at an Applebee's hours later in Clinton, Mo., some 80 miles away after they were able to negotiate with him over the phone early Thursday morning.
Adam Purinton was arrested for shooting and killing an Indian immigrant in Kansas.
(Henry County Sheriffs Office)The victim was identified by the Kansas City Star as Srinivas Kuchibhotla, an aviation engineer at technology company Garmin, whose Facebook page says he is from Hyderabad, India.
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Kuchibhotla's co-worker Alok Madasani, whose LinkedIn page shows he also attended school in India before moving to the Kansas City area in the mid 2000s, was wounded in the shooting and remains at the hospital.
The gunman fled the bar after blasting off several rounds around 7:15 p.m.
(The Kansas City Star)Garmin spokeswoman Carly Hysell told the Daily News that the company is not publicly identifying the employees, but that the second worker is no longer in critical condition.
"We’re saddened that two Garmin associates were involved in last night’s incident, and we express our condolences to the family and frie
