Officials in U.S. and India Condemn Shooting of Sikh Man in Washington State<br />India’s minister of external affairs, Sushma Swaraj, said she had spoken to the victim’s father, who said his son was "out of danger<br />and recovering in a private hospital." The attack bore a troubling resemblance to the shooting on Feb. 22 of Srinivas Kuchibhotla and Alok Madasani, two immigrants from India who were shot by another patron in a bar outside Kansas City, Mo.<br />By ELLEN BARRYMARCH 5, 2017<br />NEW DELHI — American and Indian officials on Sunday swiftly condemned the shooting of a Sikh man in a suburb of Seattle,<br />which followed by less than two weeks a similar episode in Kansas and amid a high-level crackdown on immigration.<br />The Sikh Coalition, a Sikh rights group based in New York, has urged the authorities in Washington State to investigate the shooting as a hate crime,<br />and called on top officials in Washington to forcefully condemn such attacks.<br />Since the Kansas shooting, many Indians have expressed concerns<br />that racially motivated violence will rise in the coming years, as President Trump leads an effort to curtail legal immigration and deport illegal immigrants.<br />The 39-year-old man was in the driveway of his home in Kent, Wash., working on his car on Friday nightwhen a white man, wearing a mask over the lower part of his face, confronted him<br />and then shot him in the arm, the Seattle Times reported.<br />Immigration was a central focus of high-level talks last week in Washington, where India’s foreign<br />secretary, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, met with senior American foreign policy officials.
