Indian shot dead in US
Friday February 24, 2012 07:15:23 PM,
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Washington: An Indian was gunned down in Atlanta
city in the US when he was closing his store at the end of the
day, a media report said Friday.
Suhrid Das, 48, was fatally shot in an Atlanta neighbourhood after
10 p.m. Wednesday at Banna Grocer, reported The Atlanta
Journal-Constitution.
Atlanta police spokeswoman Kim Jones said they found the store
owner suffering from a gunshot wound to the abdomen.
The victim Suhrid Das was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital, where
he later died.
"Witnesses stated that the victim was closing up the store when he
was confronted by an unknown assailant and shot one time," Jones
was quoted as saying.
Das was shot during an apparent robbery, said investigators.
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