VIJAYAWADA: A 24-year-old student from Eluru in Andhra Pradesh studying in the US was fatally shot while ostensibly trying to foil a robbery at a fuel station in Ohio Thursday, days before he was to graduate with a master’s in computer science and join a firm in New York.
Local newspapers quoted police as saying Saiesh Veera, who worked part-time at the gas station on West Broad Street of Franklinton in Columbus, may have tried to thwart the armed suspect when the latter fired at him and bolted. Saiesh had enrolled at Campbellsville University two years ago. He is the second student from AP to be shot and killed in the US this year after 23-year-old Nandapu Devansh from Vijayawada, who was caught in an armed robbery at aWalmart store in Chicago in January, barely 10 days after he landed in America.
“Saiesh was in his last semester, and his H1B visa was being processed. He told us that he was hired by a company during campus placements a few days ago. He planned to visit home in May and then move to New York,” his uncle Veera Narasimha Rao said.
Local newspapers quoted police as saying Saiesh Veera, who worked part-time at the gas station on West Broad Street of Franklinton in Columbus, may have tried to thwart the armed suspect when the latter fired at him and bolted. Saiesh had enrolled at Campbellsville University two years ago. He is the second student from AP to be shot and killed in the US this year after 23-year-old Nandapu Devansh from Vijayawada, who was caught in an armed robbery at aWalmart store in Chicago in January, barely 10 days after he landed in America.
“Saiesh was in his last semester, and his H1B visa was being processed. He told us that he was hired by a company during campus placements a few days ago. He planned to visit home in May and then move to New York,” his uncle Veera Narasimha Rao said.