An Indian man wounded in an apparently racially motivated shooting that killed his friend at a suburban Kansas City bar told detectives that the gunman asked if their "status was legal" before he opened fire, according to an affidavit released Monday. A detective wrote in the affidavit that Grillot and another person asked Purinton to leave when he confronted Kuchibhotla and Madasani in the bar. Some of the affidavit has been redacted and it offered little information about what specifically was said, other than that Madasani told detectives Purinton asked whether the Indian men's "status was legal." Madasani told a detective that he heard people saying, "He's back and he has a gun!" Grillot told a detective that he chased Purinton because he believed he was out of ammunition, but he was wrong and Purinton shot him once.

Source: ABC News March 06, 2017 16:45 UTC