Searching For A Home After Hate

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🗓️ 7 March 2018

⏱️ 18 minutes

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In February 2017, Srinivas Kutchibhotla fell victim to an alleged hate crime. In the aftermath, his widow, Sunayana Dumala, had her life and her immigration status thrown into question. Now, she's trying to figure out what it means to stay — and find community — in the small Kansas town where her husband was killed.

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0:00.0	The FBI says that the number of hate crimes in the United States has been growing every
0:04.7	year since 2015.
0:06.8	And the Bureau reports that most of those hate crimes were racially motivated.
0:10.6	One of them happened in February 2017 in a small, mostly white suburb of Kansas City.
0:15.9	At approximately 7.16 p.m., the Olathe Police Department was notified of shots fired at
0:21.1	a local establishment.
0:22.1	Officers in the area responded.
0:23.1	I've got you down.
0:24.1	I've got some good shots.
0:25.1	I've got a third.
0:26.1	I've got one to the head.
0:27.1	But the boatler was killed when 52-year-old Adam Purinton opened fire on Wednesday evening.
0:35.4	Witnesses say Purinton yelled, get out of my country.
0:38.6	Family members, they're still in shock.
0:40.2	They're so processing.
0:41.2	What's happened?
0:42.2	He did not deserve a death like this.
0:48.0	Srinivas Kuchibotlo was 32 years old when he was shot and killed in a bar.
0:52.5	The story made international news, particularly in India, which is where Kuchibotlo and his
0:56.9	wife, Sunauna Dumalla, immigrated from.
0:59.7	He used to call me Nani.
1:02.2	Nani how will you survive without me?
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