25-year-old Indian man, 2 others killed in US bank shooting
A 25-year-old Indian man was among three people killed when a gunman opened fire in a bank building in the US city. Five people were shot, some multiple times, in the incident, they said, adding that the gunman felled in a shootout with officers.
Pruthviraj Kandepi, who hailed from Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh, was killed when 29-year-old Omar Enrique Santa Perez from the town of North Bend, Ohio, opened fire at the headquarters for the Fifth Third Bank.
An official of the Telugu Association of North America (TANA) said that Kandepi was working with the bank as a consultant.
According to the Cincinnati Police Chief Eliot Isaac, officers responded to a 911 call around 9:10 a.m. local time about an "active shooter" at the bank.
The robber had a pistol and more than 200 rounds of ammunition, adding that the gunman was not a former or current employee of the bank.
He had gone to several businesses before going to the bank, he said.
Perez had opened fire in the building's loading dock before continuing into the lobby area and firing more shots, Isaac told reporters at a televised press conference. -PTC News
