Connecticut police informed the parents of Gattu Dinesh (22) and Nikesh – also in his early twenties – that the roommates “died in sleep”. Dinesh was from Telangana’s Wanaparthy and Nikesh from AP’s Srikakulam.
In the absence of any official word about the exact cause of the deaths, Dinesh’s father Gattu Venkanna suspected “carbon monoxide poisoning”. “When local friends visited their place and tried to wake up the duo, they could not. They then informed the police and called an ambulance. The two were rushed to hospital, where they were declared dead. The cause is still unknown,” Dinesh’s uncle Sainath told TOI.
Dinesh’s father Venkanna is a realtor. Nikesh’s family details remain sketchy. Dinesh had a B.Tech degree in computer science from a private university in Chennai last year and bagged a seat at Connecticut’s Sacred Heart University. He had completed his schooling in Alampur of Mahboobnagar district in undivided AP and intermediate from Hyderabad.
According to Sainath, the family is shattered after learning about the death of Dinesh weeks after they had seen him off at Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi International Airport on his way to the US.