A 24-year old Indian student from Orissa, pursuing a management degree in Boston University, was shot and killed near his campus by an unidentified assailant.
The student, whom a Boston police official identified as K. Seshadri Rao, was shot in the head and leg in the early hours of Thursday. Rao was a student at the university’s Graduate School of Management. The university’s Facebook page was flooded with messages of condolences for Rao with students expressing concern over the security in the campus.
The police said they had got a call at around 3 am on Thursday about a body lying in front of a house nearly a mile from the campus in Brighton, a residential area just off the busy Commonwealth Avenue in Boston.
When the police reached the spot, the victim was receiving medical assistance from the Boston Fire Department as he was suffering from severe head trauma. However, he was pronounced dead at the scene. Rao is the fourth victim of homicide in Boston in the past one week.
However, the Orissa government said it would take up the matter with the Union of ministry of external affairs to bring the culprit to book.
“I strongly condemn the killing of the Orissa student in the US. I will take up the matter with the Union ministry of external affairs today,” chief minister Naveen Patnaik said here while reacting to the killing of K. Sheshadri Rao.
Family sources said the victim was dragged out of his hostel room and shot dead. Seshadri was scheduled to complete the 18-month-long course in May and was offered a three-month paid internship in a Bhubaneswar-based company. His father K. Sudhakar Rao, an employee of a bank at Jeypore in Koraput district, was informed by officials of the external affairs ministry about the tragic incident.