Adam Purinton admits to hate crime |
A Kansas man who yelled “Get out of my country!” before killing an Indian American engineer and wounding another in a suburban Kansas City bar pleaded guilty May 21 to three federal hate-crime charges. Adam Purinton, 53, of Olathe, Kansas, previously pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and two counts of attempted first-degree murder in state court in the February 2017 death of 32-year-old Srinivas Kuchibhotla. The shooting in Olathe also wounded Kuchibhotla`s friend, Alok Madasani, and bar patron Ian Grillot when he tried to intervene.The attack stirred fears that immigrants were facing more violence after the election of President Donald Trump. It also attracted attention in India, where officials publicly wondered if Indian citizens are safe in the U.S.Purinton faced a possible death sentence for the federal charges. Under the plea, though, Purinton will be sentenced to life in prison on each of the three counts, with the sentences to run consecutively to each other and to the life sentence ordered earlier this month in Johnson County, Kansas, The Kansas City Star reports.
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