Srinivas Kuchibhotla, 32, came to the US more than a decade ago to become an engineer.
Highlights
- Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 US Presidential election to Donald Trump
- White House official Sean Spicer says the Kansas incident is 'disturbing'
- Srinivas Kuchibhotla was attacked by Adam Purlinton in a Kansas bar
Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called on US President Donald Trump to speak out against the murder of Indian engineer
Srinivas Kuchibhotla, who was killed after 51-year-old Adam Purinton
opened fire at two Indians in a Kansas City bar last week.
Ms Clinton, who unsuccessfully contested as the Democratic candidate in the US Presidential election against Mr Trump, tweeted:
President Trump is yet to comment on the incident which left Kuchibhotla dead and injured two others. Mr Trump's press secretary Sean Spicer, however, last week said that it was too early to describe the incident as a hate crime.
Mr Spicer also referred to the incident yesterday while addressing President Trump's concerns against recent acts of vandalism against Jewish cemeteries in St Louis and Philadelphia.
"No one in America should feel afraid to follow the religion of their choosing freely and openly. The president has dedicated to preserving this originating principle of our nation," Mr Spicer said, at a press briefing.
"And while we're at it, I don't want to get ahead of law enforcement, but I was asked the other day about the story in Kansas, the shooting in Kansas. And while the story is evolving, early reports out of Kansas are equally disturbing," he said.
On Wednesday, last week, Indian engineers Srinivas Kuchibhotla and Alok Madasani were
attacked by 51-year-old Adam Purlington, who opened fire inside a Kansas City bar after racially abusing them with chants of "get out of my country" and "terrorist". Reportedly, he mistook them for immigrants from the Middle-East.
(with inputs from PTI)