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A texas A man has been arrested for shooting dead an Indian student before going on a rampage at a gas station on Friday night.
The Fort Worth Police Department responded to a call at about 8:45 p.m. from a gas station in the 1400 block of Eastchase Parkway after a report of a staff member being shot.
Twenty-eight-year-old Chandrashekhar Pole, of Hyderabad in Telangana state, was declared dead at the scene, police said.
Florez drove from the scene and about a mile away, allegedly opened fire on an occupied vehicle and rammed into it several times during the frenzied night. There is no report of anyone being injured.
Shortly after, Florez allegedly broke the metal gate of a residence on Meadowbrook Drive and attempted to enter the home. No residents were injured during the demolition attempt.
Police said they arrived at the residence following a 911 call and arrested Florez, recovering a gun inside his vehicle.
He was taken to the hospital for injuries and booked with murder, said Officer Brad Perez, a Fort Worth police spokesman.
Police said the investigation is ongoing and the motive behind the firing has not yet been determined.
A GoFundMe has been set up to raise money to send Pol’s body India “So that his parents could see him one last time and perform his last rites,” the page said. It has raised almost $51,000 (£38,000) so far.
The page described him as “full of dreams, hope and determination to make his family proud”, adding: “Our hearts are broken to share the heartbreaking loss of our dear friend Chandrashekhar Pol.”
He completed his graduation in Dental Surgery Hyderabad And moved to the US in 2023 to pursue a master’s degree in Data Analytics at the University of North Texas, Denton. He completed his course in April and was looking for a job, working part-time at a gas station.
Sathish Reddy, president-elect of the American Telugu Association, which is said to be making efforts to repatriate his remains, said: “This is not just a loss to a family, it is a loss to the community”.
He said he expected the body to arrive in India by plane on Wednesday evening.
It was the latest attack that has heightened fears within the Indian-American community amid a widespread rise in anti-India sentiment and xenophobic incidents at the beginning of the year.
In September, the President donald trump Sworn for justice after the beheading of an Indian-origin hotel manager in… Texas, He said the suspect in the case would be prosecuted to the “full extent” of the law.
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in March, Classical dancer Amarnath Ghosh, 34, shot to death in St. Louis, Missouri. The murder investigation continues to be led by the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department.
Vivek Taneja, a 41-year-old IT executive from Alexandria, Virginia, died of his injuries after being hit in the head outside a restaurant on February 2. According to Washington DC Metropolitan Police. the allegations are Pending against an unknown suspect.
Some Indian students have linked the deaths to increasing threats and discrimination.
According to NDTV, the Indian Embassy held virtual sessions for students in February on well-being and how to stay in touch with Indians in the diaspora, with these meetings taking on new meaning after the deaths. Students from 90 universities participated in the session led by Ambassador Sripriya Ranganathan and attended by Consuls General in Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, New York, San Francisco and Seattle.
There are approximately 4.4 million Indian-Americans, and 268,923 Indian students came to the US for the 2022-2023 academic year. More than several thousand people come to America from India on work visas.