Koppu’s relatives have urged External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj to bring back the dead body to India as soon as possible.
HYDERABAD: A 25-year-old student from Telangana has been shot dead by an unidentified person at a restaurant in Kansas City in the U.S. state of Missouri on Friday evening.
The incident in Missouri was described as an armed robbery and the police have launched a manhunt for the suspect.
Sharath Koppu, who studied at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and worked at the restaurant, had moved to the US earlier this year.
Koppu hailed from Warangal town and his family currently lives in Hyderabad. He was a software engineer and had gone to the US in January to pursue his master’s degree.
His friends informed his family over phone on Saturday that the incident occurred on Friday evening.The identity of the killer, motive behind the killing and other details were not known.
Sharath’s father Ram Mohan, who is employed in BSNL, has appealed to Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj and Telangana’s NRI Minister K.T. Rama Rao to help in bringing the body home.
On Saturday, the police released a surveillance video of the suspected shooter seen in a brown and white striped shirt.
The incident comes a year after another Indian techie from Hyderabad, 32-year-old Srinivas Kuchibhotla, was killed at a bar in Kansas City in a racially motivated hate crime.