Telangana student shot dead in  U.S.A

25 year old Sharath Koppu hails from Warangal district, Telangana was shot at during a suspected robbery attempt on Friday evening at 7 am. He was a postgraduate student of software engineering at the University of Missouri Kansas City.

A worker at the restaurant told the media that while others ducked for cover, Koppu ran away from the suspect toward the back of the store, and so he was shot in the back. Two other witnesses, who were in a nearby motel, said they had heard five gunshots.

Kansas is the place which witnessed the shooting of Indian engineer Srinivas Kuchibhotla in February 2017. Adam Purinton who has been since sentenced to life for the offence, reportedly yelled “get out of my country” before fatally shooting Kuchibhotla at a bar.