{"id":300163,"date":"2018-07-08T06:32:06","date_gmt":"2018-07-08T06:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=300163"},"modified":"2018-07-08T06:34:29","modified_gmt":"2018-07-08T06:34:29","slug":"indian-origin-student-from-telengana-shot-dead-in-us-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/indian-origin-student-from-telengana-shot-dead-in-us-restaurant\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian origin student from Telengana shot dead in US restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-300164 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sharath-274x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/sharath-274x300.jpg 274w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/sharath-768x840.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/sharath-696x761.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/sharath-384x420.jpg 384w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/sharath.jpg 855w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A 25-year-old Indian origin student was shot dead at a restaurant in Kansas City in the US state of Missouri on Friday night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The deceased has been identified as Sharath Kopuu of Telangana.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A man opened fire at Sharath Kopuu at J\u2019s Fish and Chicken Market, where he worked as a part-time employee. Sharath, a student at University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC), was critically injured after the fire and was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kansas police have identified a suspect who was caught on CCTV camera in connection with the murder and released a video of the suspect. The incident is described as an armed robbery and a man hunt has been launched and a reward is being announced. \u201cLooking for this suspect in the robbery &amp; murder of 25-y.o. Sharath Kopuu at 5412 Prospect last night. Sharath was from India and is a student at UMKC. $10,000 reward for info leading to charges in this (&amp; every KCMO murder),\u201d Kansas police tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_300165\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-300165\" style=\"width: 551px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-300165\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/kansas-suspect-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"551\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/kansas-suspect-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/kansas-suspect-768x468.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/kansas-suspect-1024x624.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/kansas-suspect-696x424.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/kansas-suspect-1068x651.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/kansas-suspect-689x420.jpg 689w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/kansas-suspect.jpg 1545w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 551px) 100vw, 551px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-300165\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image of the suspect<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">After getting the tragic information the deceased family at Telangana has requested state NRI Minister KT Rama Rao to provide help to bring back the dead body to India.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 25-year-old Indian origin student was shot dead at a restaurant in Kansas City in the US state of Missouri on Friday night. The deceased has been identified as Sharath Kopuu of Telangana. A man opened fire at Sharath Kopuu at J\u2019s Fish and Chicken Market, where he worked as a part-time employee. Sharath, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":300164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2072,2014,2921,53],"tags":[3467,3468,3470,3469,3473,2226,3472,3471,50],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300163"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300168,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300163\/revisions\/300168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}