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Kansas bar shooting targets Indian-born engineer after anti-immigrant remark
A Kansas man shot and killed Srinivas Kuchibhotla and wounded two others at a bar in Olathe after telling two Indian men to leave the country. Federal authorities treated the case as a hate crime, showing how anti-immigrant rhetoric can become racialized violence against South Asian communities.