Kansas bar attack survivor says he’s ‘grateful’

India has expressed shock after the fatal shooting of an Indian national in the U.S., amid reports that the attack may have been racially motivated.

Ian Grillot, who was injured that night while saving Srinivas, also attended the march accompanied with Lt Governor Jeff Colyer, US Congressman Kevin Yoder, Olathe Mayor Mike Copeland, Olathe Police Chief Steven Menke, and other state officials.

A Kansas man who’s been called a hero for trying to stop a deadly shooting last week said he was “happy” to risk his life to save others and that he’s grateful for how his community has united following the incident.

A White Kansas resident faces murder and potential hate crime charges for killing Srinivas Kuchibhotla, an Indian immigrant.

The shooting of two Indians in a crowded suburban Kansas City bar has sent shock waves through their hometowns, and India’s government is rushing diplomats to monitor progress in the investigation into the crime. Andy Berthelsen said Saturday that Adam Purinton became “a drunken mess” and bounced among menial jobs over the past year. Purinton reportedly got into an argument with the victims and hurled racial slurs. He says Purinton and his father were close and that the father died within weeks of being diagnosed with cancer.

Madasani and Kuchibhotla, originally from India, worked at Garmin, the technology company that makes Global Positioning System devices.

Madasani said he went to get a manager, and Purinton was being led out of the bar when he returned.

NY [U.S.], February 25: Following the backlash over the murder of an Indian engineer in Kansas, which is being touted as a hate crime, the White House has attempted to downplay notions that there was any correlation between the incident and President Donald Trump’s stance on immigrants.

Madasani has since been released from the hospital while Grillot remains hospitalized.

In an interview with the New York Times on Friday, Madasani said that the gunman asked him and Kuchibhotla if they were living in the United States illegally. At least one bystander told the Kansas City Star he shouted “get out of my country” before shooting the Indian victims.

Sunayana Dumala held a press conference just two days after her husband Srinivas Kuchibhotla, 32, was shot dead in Austin’s Bar and Grill in Olathe, Kansas.

Alok Madasani, 32, and Ian Grillot, 24, were wounded.

“Speaking from his hospital bed, he said: “(I) thought I heard nine shots. He was arrested about five hours later after cops say he told the Applebee’s restaurant bartender in Clinton, Missouri, that he’d been involved in a shooting 70 miles away.