The suspect named Adam Purinton was a former US Navy veteran who is reportedly suffering from PTSD.
An Indian engineer was shot and killed in a bar in Kansas city (US) on Wednesday night. Former US Navy veteran Adam Purinton from Olathe is accused of killing 32-year-old Srinivas Kuchibhotla, while another Indian, his colleague Alok Madasani, was critically injured. An American named Ian Grillot was also shot while attempting to stop the shooter.
Purinton is a desktop support specialist for GEN3RATION, an information technology company in the Kansas City area, according to his LinkedIn Page.
While the police are investigating the incident as a possible hate crime incident, the Kansas City Star reported Purinton had often talked about grieving for his father who died a year ago.
The Star's Managing Editor Greg Farmer tweeted that Purinton’s neighbours revealed he is a military veteran who suffered from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
In June 2016, two cases of US veterans who suffered from PTSD committing crimes in the United States.
Twenty-five-year-old Dionisio Garza II, an army veteran who suffered from PTSD fired 212 rounds during a shooting rampage that left one dead and injured six in Houston. Garza had served two tours of duty in Afghanistan between 2009 and 2013 and was discharged from active duty in 2014, reported the Daily Mail. He didn't appear to have a criminal history. The veteran, according to KHOU, had expressed anti-government sentiments. His stepmother believed he may have been haunted by his tours of duty.
Another soldier named Thomas Russell Langford was accused of making threats against worshipers in a Hoke County mosque, millitary.com reported. He was also reported to have been suffering from PTSD. Langford was a major in the US Army Reserve and faced charges of ethnic intimidation, assault with a deadly weapon and stalking in the incident.
In Kansas, Purinton has been charged with premeditated murder of Srinivas Kuchibhotla and attempted of Alok Madasani and Ian Grillot who got shot when attempting to stop the attack.
A 2012 study revealed that war veterans who struggled with anger issues and combat trauma are more than "twice as likely as other veterans to be arrested for criminal misbehaviour," The Huffington Post reported. The study published in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, drew a "direct correlation between combat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the anger it can cause and criminal misbehaviour ".
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