In a tragic US mass shooting incident, an Indian girl was among 9 who had been killed at a crowded mall in Dallas in the US state of Texas on Saturday. According to information company PTI, Aishwarya Thatikonda, 27, hailing from Hyderabad was working in Texas as a undertaking engineer, a buddy of the decide advised media individuals on Monday.
She was the daughter of a district decide in Ranga Reddy district court docket. Aishwarya did her civil engineering from a school in town and accomplished her masters in the US after which she had been working there for greater than two years.
Victim had spoken to household on the incident day
Aishwarya had spoken to her relations earlier than the incident on Saturday, and after they referred to as her again after studying concerning the shooting they didn’t get any response, in response to the judge’s buddy.
(*9*) the judge’s buddy mentioned.
Aishwarya was procuring with a buddy after they had been shot by the gunman on the Allen Premium Outlets in Dallas, the New York Post newspaper reported.
The shooting erupted round 3.30 PM on Saturday as throngs of consumers stuffed the outside mall. The 33-year-old gunman was shot lifeless by a police officer, the report mentioned.
Mass shootings in US surged in previous few years
Notably, the nation has witnessed a surge in mass killing in the previous few years. According to experiences, the US is setting a report tempo for mass killings in 2023, replaying the horror on a loop roughly as soon as every week up to now this yr. The carnage has taken 88 lives in 17 mass killings over 111 days. Each time, the killers wielded firearms. Only 2009 was marked by as many such tragedies in the identical time frame.
Gruesome information have been set inside the final decade. The knowledge exhibits a excessive of 45 mass killings in 2019 and 230 folks slain in such tragedies in 2017. That yr, 60 folks died when a gunman opened hearth over an outside nation music pageant on the Las Vegas Strip. The bloodbath nonetheless accounts for probably the most fatalities from a mass shooting in fashionable America.
(With inputs from PTI)
