Indian techie’s widow attends Trump’s speech

Washington: Sunayana Dumala, the widow of an Indian engineer who was shot dead in a hate crime shooting in the US last year, Wednesday attended President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union Address. Sunayana, 32, was invited as a guest by Congressman Kevin Yoder to attend the event. Her husband Srinivas Kuchibhotla was shot dead while his colleague, also an Indian, sustained bullet injuries after an American Navy veteran opened fire in a crowded suburban bar in Olathe city in February last year. The shooter, thought they were Middle Easterners and was heard telling them to “get out of my country” at the time of the shooting. Earlier in the day, Sunayana, met a number of Congressional leaders including House Speaker Paul Ryan. The speaker said he knows Sunayana’s story and remembers her.