{"id":301250,"date":"2018-08-08T06:50:22","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T06:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=301250"},"modified":"2019-06-19T06:41:05","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T06:41:05","slug":"kansas-shooting-killer-of-indian-techie-sentenced-to-life-for-hate-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/kansas-shooting-killer-of-indian-techie-sentenced-to-life-for-hate-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas Shooting: Killer of Indian techie sentenced to life for hate crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-301251 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/kansas-282x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/kansas-282x300.jpg 282w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/kansas-395x420.jpg 395w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/kansas.jpg 538w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/>A US Navy veteran Adam Purinton who shot dead an Indian engineer Srinivas Kuchibhotlatech was on August 7 awarded three consecutive life sentences for the racially motivated attack in Kansas City bar on February 22, 2017. He had been jailed for 50 years without parole.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Purinton killed Kuchibhotla and wounded Alok Madasani at a bar in the city of Olathe, Kansas, in February 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to a statement by the US Department of Justice Purinton, at his plea hearing in May, had admitted that he shot Kuchibhotla and his Madasani at a bar because of their race, color, religion and national origin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe crimes at issue, in this case, are detestable,\u201d Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He further added, \u201cThe defendant acted with clear premeditation in murdering one man, and attempting to murder a second man, simply because of their race, religion, and national origin. As a result, a promising young life has been tragically cut short, and other lives have been filled with suffering.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The judge in the case also ordered Purinton to pay compensation of $14,200 (\u00a311,000) to Kuchibhotla&#8217;s family.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The attack drew worldwide condemnation and shocked the Indian community in the US.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US Navy veteran Adam Purinton who shot dead an Indian engineer Srinivas Kuchibhotlatech was on August 7 awarded three consecutive life sentences for the racially motivated attack in Kansas City bar on February 22, 2017. He had been jailed for 50 years without parole. Purinton killed Kuchibhotla and wounded Alok Madasani at a bar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":301251,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[4065],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301250"}],"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\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301252,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301250\/revisions\/301252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}