Kansas Bar Shooter Who Mistook Indian For Iranian Faces Hate Crime Charges
Adam Purinton was arrested at an Applebee’s in Clinton, Missouri, after he allegedly told one of the staff members that he had killed two Iranian men in a bar.
1 Killed, 2 Hospitalized In Racially Motivated Kansas City Bar Shooting
Asked at a news conference Thursday if the involvement of federal authorities indicated the shooting might be considered a hate crime, FBI special agent Eric Jackson said it was too early to determine.
OLATHE, Kan. (REPORT) — A man has been charged with murder in what some witnesses described as a racially motivated shooting at a crowded suburban Kansas City bar that left one Indian man dead and two other men hospitalized. Local police are working with the FBI to investigate the shooting Wednesday night in Olathe, Kansas, but
