Indian-Americans raise $100,000 for Kansas shooting survivor

• Sarwar Alam
• 26 March, 2017

By: Sarwar Alam

A 24-year-old American, who took a bullet for an Indian, has been honoured as ‘A True American Hero’ by the Indian-American community in Houston which raised $100,000 to help him buy a house in his hometown Kansas. Ian Grillot, who was injured when he tried to intervene in the shooting by a Navy veteran targeting Indians at a bar in Olathe, Kansas last month, was honoured as ‘A True American Hero’ at the 14th annual gala of India House Houston . Srinivas Kuchibhotla, 32, was killed and his colleague Alok Madasani was critically injured in the shooting. “On behalf of…

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