India Times
GAMARIAH: A student from
Jharkand doing research in an Engineering college in the US was found shot dead
at an apartment complex in the second incident of campus gun violence in five
weeks in that country where Indian students became victims.
The body of Abhijeet Mahato
(29), who was doing his PhD on computational mechanics at the Dukes Pratt School
of Engineering in Durham in North Carolina, was found in the 1600 Block of
Anderson Street by his friends and colleagues on Friday, the student's
grandfather and a former Jharkhand MLA Dhananjoy Mahato said on Sunday.
The crime was noticed at about
11:30 PM on Friday night (local time) at the apartment complex, several blocks
south of the Duke campus.
Durham police was quoted as
having said they do not yet have a motive for the shooting by unidentified
gunmen.
Dhananjoy said he
would ask the government to make arrangements for bringing the body here after
the post-mortem is completed on Monday.
Abhijeet told his parents
Sitaram and Aarti Mahato only last Wednesday that he had been very busy as the
examination was round the corner.
A pall of gloom descended on
Abhijeet's home at Gamariah and relatives and friends streamed in as soon as the
news of the tragedy came in.
Abhijeet was a meritorious
student who studied in Hindu School and did his Bachelor in Engineering(BE) from
Jadavpur University from Kolkata.
An M Tech from IIT, Kanpur he
was in his second year of studies in the US. Two Indian doctoral students
hailing from Andhra Pradesh were found shot dead in Louisiana State University
campus at Baton Rouge on December 13.
Chandrasekhar Reddy Komma and
Kiran Kumar Allam were found shot dead in Allam's
apartment.