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Indian Immigrant: After-Work Drink and Anti-Immigrant Violence

indian immigrant: Witnesses said Adam Purinton, who is white, yelled Get out of my country! before firing at two men who had stopped for an after-work drink at Austin's Bar and Grill in Olathe, Kansas, according to Metro News. Srinivas Kuchibhotla was killed in the Feb. 22, 2017, attack. A man charged with fatally shooting an Indian immigrant last year at a suburban Kansas City bar pleaded guilty Tuesday to murder in the slaying that fanned fears of anti-immigrant violence following President Donald Trump's election. His friend Alok Madasani was wounded. Another man, Ian Grillot, was wounded when he tried to intervene. The men, both 32, had come from India to the U.S. as students and worked as engineers at nearby GPS-maker Garmin. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.