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A Murder Shatters the Dreams of Immigrant Tech Workers [View all]
I subscribe to Wired and the printed title was: "Murder in the Heartland".
https://www.wired.com/story/adam-purinton-shooting-olathe-kansas/
“He’s back, and he has a gun!”
Adam Purinton strode toward the patio of Austins Bar & Grill, a black and white cloth tied around his head and military-style medals pinned haphazardly to his white shirt.
He burst into the patio’s flimsy side door shouting, “Get out of my country!” and fired his handgun at two Indian men seated at a high table, according to eyewitnesses and police records. Customers screamed over the din of the TVs and dove for the ground. At least three bullets hit the man facing the door, Srinivas Kuchibhotla. Another bullet plunged into the leg of his friend, Alok Madasani, who crawled for the door before collapsing on the concrete. Alok’s wife was pregnant with their first child, due in four months, and all he could think of was living to see his baby’s face. Survive, he thought.
Ian Grillot, a 24-year-old former Marine, ducked under a table nearby, counting the blasts of bullets. The shots stopped. When Purinton turned and ran out of the bar, heading toward the back parking lot, Grillot bolted after him. Hearing footsteps closing in, Purinton allegedly whirled around and sent a bullet tearing through Grillot’s hand and into his chest. On the patio, a bloodied Kuchibhotla sank to the ground. People scrambled over upended tables and broken glasses to the wounded men. One knelt at Kuchibhotla’s side, pushing napkins into his wounds. Another ripped off his own shirt, tying it around Madasani’s leg as a tourniquet. Several people ran out to Grillot, who kept talking talking talking to retain consciousness as his blood seeped out.
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A survey last year found that 70 percent of voters of Indian heritage were in favor of Clinton. “Indians kind of despise Trump,” says Sanjoy Chakravorty, a Temple University professor and coauthor of The Other One Percent: Indians in America. “But many of them live in these very suburban communities where the sentiment runs the other way. They keep a low profile and don’t discuss with neighbors how they feel.”
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In Kansas, the tech industry’s gripe about the shortage of qualified talent is becoming a full-throated dirge. Four math or computer-related jobs remain open for every unemployed worker in the area, according to the Mid-America Regional Council, but recruiting from outside the Midwest is difficult.
Adam Purinton strode toward the patio of Austins Bar & Grill, a black and white cloth tied around his head and military-style medals pinned haphazardly to his white shirt.
He burst into the patio’s flimsy side door shouting, “Get out of my country!” and fired his handgun at two Indian men seated at a high table, according to eyewitnesses and police records. Customers screamed over the din of the TVs and dove for the ground. At least three bullets hit the man facing the door, Srinivas Kuchibhotla. Another bullet plunged into the leg of his friend, Alok Madasani, who crawled for the door before collapsing on the concrete. Alok’s wife was pregnant with their first child, due in four months, and all he could think of was living to see his baby’s face. Survive, he thought.
Ian Grillot, a 24-year-old former Marine, ducked under a table nearby, counting the blasts of bullets. The shots stopped. When Purinton turned and ran out of the bar, heading toward the back parking lot, Grillot bolted after him. Hearing footsteps closing in, Purinton allegedly whirled around and sent a bullet tearing through Grillot’s hand and into his chest. On the patio, a bloodied Kuchibhotla sank to the ground. People scrambled over upended tables and broken glasses to the wounded men. One knelt at Kuchibhotla’s side, pushing napkins into his wounds. Another ripped off his own shirt, tying it around Madasani’s leg as a tourniquet. Several people ran out to Grillot, who kept talking talking talking to retain consciousness as his blood seeped out.
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A survey last year found that 70 percent of voters of Indian heritage were in favor of Clinton. “Indians kind of despise Trump,” says Sanjoy Chakravorty, a Temple University professor and coauthor of The Other One Percent: Indians in America. “But many of them live in these very suburban communities where the sentiment runs the other way. They keep a low profile and don’t discuss with neighbors how they feel.”
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In Kansas, the tech industry’s gripe about the shortage of qualified talent is becoming a full-throated dirge. Four math or computer-related jobs remain open for every unemployed worker in the area, according to the Mid-America Regional Council, but recruiting from outside the Midwest is difficult.
Some important quotes from the article
“Where are you from?”
“Why are you here in this country?!”
“We pay for your visas to be here. You need to get out of here! You don’t belong here!”
“You’re going to stick up for them?”
“What a douchebag!” “We’re all Americans.”
“You must be a tech guy too”
She closed with a question, in all caps: “DO WE BELONG HERE?” The Kansans sitting on the patio at Austins that night, the ones who ran to Alok and Srinu’s side, had one answer. The man with the gun had another.
It's a good read. Very well written and it humanizes the people involved by going into their stories.
On a related note, I'm American, born and raised, yet people think I must be on some visa.
I'm qualified and work in the business/functional side, yet people think I should be writing code.
And for some reason I always get selected for the completely random extra screening at airports...Every...Single...Time.
Being from America helps only on paper until they see my brown face.
Some people are worried that someone is coming to steal their jobs. Other people are worried that some loser is coming to kill us.
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