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Gochi
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Indian techie in US shoots family, self
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Indian-techie-in-US-shoots-family-self/articl eshow/4339150.cms
WASHINGTON/KOCHI: It is the heartland of every Indian techie’s gilded dreams. A bloodbath on Sunday evening has momentarily turned it into a
Devarajan with his wife and children. (TOI Photo)
nightmare neighborhood.
A 42-year old Indian techie went on an apparent murder-suicide rampage in the heart of Silicon Valley on Sunday night, shooting dead his two school-going children and a family of three relatives visiting from India, before turning the gun on himself.
Police said a woman in her mid-30s who appears to have been his wife survived the rampage and stumbled outside the house in an upscale Santa Clara neighborhood with multiple gunshot wounds. She is in hospital and listed in a critical condition.
Details are sketchy pending investigation, but reports named the shooter as Devarajan Raghavan from Wynad region in the Tamil Nadu-Kerala border, and his victims as his wife Aabha (who survived), their two school going children Akhil (11) and Ahaana (4), his brother-in-law Ashokan, Appu his wife Suchitra, and their new-born child Neha.
Devarajan was said to be an engineer at the Silicon Valley tech major Yahoo and had worked with Microsoft before that in course of his 15 years in the United States. Ashokan had recently located to the US after working with Hewlett-Packard in Bangalore.
Police are investigating the motive behind the apparent suicide-murder, but one officer was quoted by a local television station as saying financial troubles did not seem to be the reason.
Police did not release the names of people in the incident or details pending notification of families. A news conference by Santa Clara police is expected at 3pm PST.
The shooting recalled a similar rampage by Los Angeles-resident Karthik Rajaram, a financial advisor of Indian-origin who killed his family of five before he turned the gun on himself last October, reportedly because of financial troubles.
Despite the economic downturn across the US and falling home price values there have been no reports of any large scale despair-killing in Silicon Valley, which is still regarded as the hub of innovation and enterprise in the United States. The one exception was an incident last fall when Jing Hua Wu, an engineer of Chinese-origin, shot dead three of his colleagues at chip-maker Si-port after he had been fired from his job. His victims included Si-port's Indian-American CEO Sid Agrawal.
Rivermark, the neighborhood in the township of Santa Clara where the latest rampage took place, is a typically quiet, upscale locality where most people work in the technology field. Sun Microsystems and Intel are among the storied companies nearby are nearby and many Indian families live in the neighborhood.
"It's such a quiet neighborhood. I don't even hear anybody speaking in a loud voice," the local San Jose Mercury News quoted Amit Sinha, a software engineer, as saying after Devarajan's alleged killing spree. "And then there are 20 police with semi-automatic guns."
In fact, crime is so low in Rivermark that local resident disbanded a citizens' crime watch group because the only problem was children jumping over neighbors' fences.
Devarajan had reportedly moved into the neighborhood only a week back, renting the new house. Some reports said the family had gathered there for a house warming. Devarajan's children had just been enrolled in a nearby private school, which would suggest his financial situation may not have been dire.
Police told the local media they found two handguns in the house, and investigations were underway to determine if they were the weapons used in the rampage. A news release by the Santa Clara Police Department said as follows: On Sunday, March 29th, at 8:30 PM, Santa Clara Police and Fire Department personnel responded to the report of an injured person in front of a town home in the 4300 block of Headen Way. The arriving officers determined the injured person, and adult female, had been shot and that there were several additional victims inside the home.
Officers quickly evacuated the adult woman and an 11 month-old girl, who were rushed to a local hospital. The child has since passed away, but the woman is still alive in critical condition. She is being treated for multiple gunshot wounds.
Four additional shooting victims were pronounced dead at the scene. They include 2 children, an 11-year-old boy and a 4-year-old girl, and 2 adults, a 35 year-old male and 25 year-old-woman. The suspected gunman was also pronounced dead at the scene from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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Bignole
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Crack naa Moddalu ilage chestaaru
Anni vunna vadiki chavante bhayam...anni vadulukunna vadiki brathukante bhayam
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Bignole
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Naa offshore tester ki Brother-in-law cousin anta podduna seppindhi emanna telisthe cheppandi ani
Anni vunna vadiki chavante bhayam...anni vadulukunna vadiki brathukante bhayam
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Gochi
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http://news.rediff.com/report/2009/mar/31/six-indians-found-shot-dead-in-califor nia.htm
Six Indians were reportedly killed in a suspected case of murder-suicide in Santa Clara, California on Sunday night. Though the police refused to confirm their identities, news reported claimed that the victims were natives of Wayanad district in Kerala.
The deceased were identified as Ayyankoli native Devarajan and his family members Suchitra, Asokan, Akhil, Neha and Ahna.
The Santa Clara police remained unavailable for comment.
Devarajan was an engineer at Yahoo and had worked with Microsoft before that, reports said. It triggered fears if the incident was a result of the economic meltdown.
One survivor, an adult female, sustained life-threatening injuries and is being treated at a Bay Area hospital, according to reports. Police indicated that it is Devarajan's wife. The survivor managed to run outside and collapsed on the sidewalk, according to Mercury News.
The dead include two children of Devarajan, aged 11 and 4. His brother-in-law, wife and their toddler were the others who were killed. The toddler was rushed to the hospital, but could not be saved.
KTVU News quoted Santa Clara Police Lt. Phil Cooke as saying that 'the evidence at the scene points to it being a murder - suicide. It's still early on in the investigation, but early indications are that is what we have.' He said the officers arrived at the scene in a upscale neighborhood after a 911 call at about 8:30 pm Sunday.
The police found bodies scattered around the three-story town-home, including that of the 42-year-old man whom police suspect was the shooter. Two handguns were found nearby, reports added.
The police have not given any motive behind the alleged murder-suicide.
Inside the rented house, in which the family reportedly shifted just two days back, the police also found an Indian passport. Even the surviving woman came to US recently, reports said.
The Indian Consulate's office in San Francisco is working with detectives to identify the victims
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