Justice served against the ignorant who give Americans bad name – PB/TK
Adam Purinton, 52, charged with federal hate crime charges over deadly Kansas bar rampage – By Andrew Blake / June 10 2017
The Justice Department brought federal hate crime charges Friday against Adam Purinton, a white man accused of opening fire inside a suburban Kansas City bar earlier this year after leveling ethnic slurs at two Indian nationals.
A federal grand jury has indicted Mr. Purinton, 52, on hate crime and firearm charges in connection with the Feb. 22 incident inside Austins Bar & Grill in Olathe, Kansas, the Justice Department announced Friday.
Witnesses said Mr. Purinton used racial slurs and shouted “get out of my country” before shooting at Srinivas Kuchibhotla and Alok Madasani, two aviation engineers originally from Hyderabad, according to investigators. Kuchibhotla died from his injuries, but Mr. Madasani and a third man who attempted to intervene, Ian Grillot, managed to survive.
Mr. Purinton had been ejected from the bar earlier that evening but returned to open fire, according to witnesses. He was arrested several hours later after allegedly confessing to a bartender about 70 miles east in Clinton, Mo., and was subsequently charged by Johnson County prosecutors with first-degree murder and two counts of attempted first-degree murder. He’s been held on a $2-million bond ever since.
A federal grand jury has since concluded Mr. Purinton targeted the men “because of their actual and perceived race, color, religion and national origin,” the Justice Department said in unsealing its indictment Friday.
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