Accused Man In Kansas Shooting Charged With Hate Crime:- The accused in the Kansas shooting, Adam Purinton (51), has been indicted on federal hate crime and firearms charges.
Adam Purinton on February 22 at a suburban Kansas City bar, killed Indian techie Srinivas Kuchibhotla and attempted to kill Alok Madasani, also an Indian national, because of their actual and perceived race, color, religion and national origin.
The judgment was pronounced by a federal grand jury against Purinton, of Olathe, Kansas. Witnesses said Purinton yelled at the two Indian men to “get out of my country” before pulling the trigger in the attack.
A 24-year-old American man, Ian Grillot was also injured while intervening in the shooting.
The Acting Assistant Attorney General Thomas E Wheeler, II, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, and United States Attorney Thomas E Beall of the District of Kansas, made the announcement in this regard.
A media release had said, Purinton faces a maximum penalty of death or life in prison. The Justice Department will determine at a later date whether, in this particular case, it will seek the death penalty. Purinton has also been charged with violation in the federal firearms statute. During the violence, he discharged a firearm at at Kuchibhotla, Madasani, and Grillot.
It alleged that after substantial planning and premeditation Purinton committed the offences, attempted to kill more than one person in a single criminal episode, and knowingly created a grave risk of death to others on the scene.
Purinton, a US Navy veteran, had worked in the air traffic control. He is being held in the Johnson County jail on a USD two million cash bond on murder and attempted murder charges.
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