Guntur man killed in US bank shooting

A 25-year-old man hailing from Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh has been killed after a gunman opened fire in a bank building in the US city of Cincinnati on Thursday.  

Pruthviraj Kandepi who was working as a consultant in the bank died instantly when the accused Omar Enrique Santa Perez opened fire at the headquarters for the Fifth Third Bank near Fountain Square in downtown Cincinnati.

Pruthviraj was killed along with three others in the bank shooting who were identified as 48-year-old Luis Felipe Calderon and 64-year-old Richard Newcomer.

Telugu Association of North America is making arrangements to send his body to India,  a member of the committee said.