He Became a Hate Crime Victim. She Became a Widow.<br />“And we always wondered, how safe?”<br />Ms. Dumala had wondered how the couple fit into this new narrative, if they should move to a different country,<br />and once even asked her husband, “Are we doing the right thing of staying in the United States of America?”<br />Ms. Dumala shared what is now the most dreadful chapter of her life seated at the foot of the king-size bed where they once slept.<br />“We’ve read many times in newspapers of some kind of shooting happening,” Ms. Dumala said at a news conference<br />in February at the headquarters of Garmin, where Mr. Kuchibhotla worked as a senior aviation systems engineer.<br />“Bye,” he said, hurrying past her, a casual farewell that would come to haunt Ms. Dumala for its brevity and finality.<br />The police officer — who was stopped by Ms. Dumala from uttering Mr. Purinton’s name — also said that it appeared the shooting was premeditated.
