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- ABC News
- February 24, 2017
Wife of man killed in possible hate crime speaks
The family also spoke outside their home in Hyderabad, India.
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A bartender said that the shooter used \"racial slurs\" just before firing inside the bar, The Associated Press reported.
The FBI is investigating whether the shooting was a bias crime, according to Kansas City FBI Special Agent-in-Charge Eric Jackson. He said that the FBI was going to investigate \"from every angle to \"determine what the true facts are.\"
Local police added that they would also look into whether the shooting was racially motivated.
Authorities have done dozens of interviews of witnesses. Asking those w/ info to contact @OlathePolice pic.twitter.com/TK7iQDSuxY
— Laura Ziegler (@laurazig) February 23, 2017
The shooting killed Kuchibhotla and injured two others -- Alok Madasani, 32, and Ian Grillot, 24, officials said.
Madasani and Grillot were taken to a local hospital where they were listed in stable condition, officials said.
The suspect, Adam W. Purinton, fled after the shooting, according to Olathe Police Chief Steven Menke.
Purinton was found and arrested early the following morning in Clinton, Missouri, and charged with one count of premeditated murder and two counts of premeditated attempted murder, according to Johnson County District Attorney Steve Howe.
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Purinton is being held on a $2 million bond, Howe said.
Purinton has waived extradition and an attorney has not been formally assigned to Purinton because he has not yet appeared in court, the AP reported today.
The triple-shooting has shaken many, both in the U.S. and in India.
\"I am very disturbed by last night's shooting in Olathe,\" Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran said in a statement. \"I strongly condemn violence of any kind, especially if it is motivated by prejudice and xenophobia.\"
I strongly condemn violence of any kind, especially if it is motivated by prejudice & xenophobia?my statement on the tragedy in Olathe: pic.twitter.com/4Nn079Q3Wv
— Jerry Moran (@JerryMoran) February 24, 2017
India's minister of external affairs, Sushma Swaraj, wrote on Twitter that she was \"shocked at the shooting incident in Kansas in which Srinivas Kuchibhotla has been killed.\"
Swaraj said she sent her \"heartfelt condolences to [the] bereaved family\" and that she has been in contact with Navtej Sarna, India's ambassador to the U.S. Swaraj said Sarna told her that two Indian embassy officials \"have rushed to Kansas.\"
I have assured all help and assistance to the family.
— Sushma Swaraj (@SushmaSwaraj) February 24, 2017
\"We will provide all help and assistance to the bereaved family,\" Swaraj said. \"I have spoken to the father and Mr. K.K. Shastri, brother of Srinivas Kuchibhotla, in Hyderabad and conveyed my condolences to the family.\"
Madasani, who survived the shooting, has been discharged from the hospital, Swaraj noted on Twitter.
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Grillot, the other survivor of the shooting, said in an interview from his hospital bed that he was \"incredibly lucky.\"
\"I could have never walked again or seen my family again,\" he said in a video posted online by the University of Kansas Health System.
The health system did not provide an update on Grillot's condition this morning, the AP reported.
ABC News' Matthew Foster, Julia Jacobo, Rachel Katz and Kirit Radia contributed to this report.
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