Gujarati store clerk shot at in the US still critical

Mahesana: The condition of the Gujarati origin youth who was shot at by suspected robbers in a store in Warner Robins city under Houston county of Georgia state of the US on Friday morning is still critical.

28 year old Paresh Patel, a native of Jornang in Mahesana district in North Gujarat, who was living in the US alone for over a decade, was shot at the 777 store on the Watson Boulevard where he used to work as store clerk. He has been admitted to a local hospital in critical condition with shot wound in the torso.

His father had died long back while he was a child. His mother lives at his native place.

Paresh’s relatives today said that when police arrived at the scene, it found him on the floor of the store with one gunshot wound to the torso. Police believe a robbery happened before Patel was shot. No one else was in the store at the time of the shooting.The shooting is still under investigation.
Earlier in September last year a store clerk of Indian origin Govinder Sinch Kaura, 56, of Warner Robins, was shot at in similar manner in his store and later died. Another store clerk of US origin was shot in the district in September 2011.

Notably,three persons of Gujarati origin have been shot dead in the US in last around 50 days. 23-year-old Vatsal Patel and his father Gautam Patel, who run a store in Linwood Boulevard in Columbus area under Muscogee County in Georgia state, were shot at by two black assailants almost ten days ago of whom Vatsal died on the spot.

In the last two years, around 20 NRG’s have been killed on foreign soil of whom over a dozen such murders have taken place in the US alone.

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