Tuesday, February 28, 2017

The shootings in Kansas

The murder at a Kansas bar, last Wednesday night, of Srinivas Kuchibhotla, an Indian engineer who worked for the Garmin company, is a terrible and tragic story.

Mr. Kuchibhotla was killed, and an Indian friend from work, Alok Madasani, was injured, by a man who, witnesses say, yelled "get out of my country," before opening fire with a shotgun.

Mr. Madasani was released from the hospital on Thursday. Ian Grillot, a bystander who tried to intervene, that night, was also shot; he remains hospitalized.

Here is an editorial, from The New York Times, which appeared online yesterday, and in today's print edition of the paper:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/27/opinion/who-belongs-in-trumps-america.html

And here is a story from yesterday's Washington Post:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/02/27/an-act-of-american-terror-in-trumps-heartland