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https://www.ndtv.com/indians-abroad/...-crime-1855472

May 22, 2018

A US Navy veteran, who is serving life in prison for killing Indian
engineer Srinivas Kuchibhotla and injuring two others at a suburban Kansas
City bar last year, on Monday pleaded guilty to hate crime and firearm
charges.

Adam Purinton admitted that he fatally shot Kuchibhotla in February 2017
after confronting him and another man Alok Madasani from India at Austins
Bar and Grill in Olathe.

Several weeks before the shooting, Srinivas Kuchibhotla and Madasani, his
friend and fellow engineer at Garmin, were at Austins when Adam Purinton
saw them and made a comment to another patron.

"Did you see the terrorists on the patio?" Adam Purinton asked.

The patron told him they were from India and they were not terrorists.

On February 22, 2017, the two friends were once again having an after-work
drink at the bar when Purinton approached and confronted them.

He demanded to know where they were from, then poked Kuchibhotla in the
chest, and called him a terrorist.

"Get out of my country," he yelled.

That's when bar patrons, including Ian Grillot, asked Purinton to leave
and he was escorted from the business by employees.

Adam Purinton then went home, changed clothes and got his 9mm
semi-automatic handgun.

He returned to the bar, covered his face with a scarf to hide his identity
and went inside. He then fired eight shots at the two Indian men.
Kuchibhotla was hit by at least four bullets. Madasani was shot in the leg.

As he fled from the shooting, Grillot ran after him. Adam Purinton turned
and shot him.

Later, Adam Purinton called a friend and and said he was on the run from
police because he had shot "two Iranians."