Purinton waived extradition during a brief court hearing in Henry County in Missouri and will be returned to Kansas. Authorities repeatedly declined at a news conference to say whether the shooting was a hate crime although local police said they were working with the FBI to investigate the case. The Linkedin accounts for Kuchibhotla and Madasani say that they were engineers working at GPS-maker Garmin and had studied in India. U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran of Kansas posted a statement on Facebook saying that he was very disturbed by the shooting. The bar where the shooting took place was closed Thursday, with a sign in the door that said it would remain closed indefinitely.

Source: Washington Post February 24, 2017 00:25 UTC