Young Indian origin shot dead in attempted armed robbery in Chicago

Dolton: A 19-year-old Arshad Vahora was shot and killed and a 55-year-old man who was critically injured.  Both were working at Vahora’s father’s business, the Clark gas station at the corner of 142nd and Langley in Dolton. As per report one fatally shot another wounded during an attempted armed robbery in the southwest suburbs. Police say a 911 call came in at 11 a.m. from one of the victims who was just breathing and could not talk, like someone walked in and opened fire hitting the two victims while vendor who was also inside the gas station at the time took cover and was unhurt in the incident.

As police not sure this could be started as a possible armed robbery but not clear about anything taken as a register seems untouched. There was also gunman left the scene on foot as per detectives are reviewing surveillance video from the gas station.

Arshad Vahora, is native of Gujarat’S  NAdiad who shot dead after robbers struck gas station  in Doloton, a village about 30 kilometer from the city of Chicago sais as per CBS report.

A relative tells WGN News the owner of this gas station is trying to make his way back here from India. He is the father of the 19-year-old victim. While the 55-year-old employee was in critical condition and taken to the hospital where he was undergoing surgery.

A $12,000 reward is being offered for information leading to a conviction. Anyone with any information is asked to contact police.

The shooting comes amid growing attacks on Indians and Americans of Indian descent in recent months.

On December 15, Karunakar Karengle was killed during a robbery by two hooded attackers in Ohio. Earlier this month, a 30-year-old Indian national pursuing his masters in Chicago has been seriously injured after he was shot in his right cheek by an unidentified assailant. Srinivas Kuchibhotla, a software engineer from India, was fatally shot in Olathe, Kansas, in February by a US navy veteran who had told him and his friend at a bar to go back to their country. Week later, a Sikh man was shot in his arm in his driveway in Kent, Washington state, by a masked man who had told him go back to his “own country”.

There were 58,491 incidents of gun violence across the country in 2017 in which 14,763 people were killed and 29,888 others injured, according to Gun Violence Archive (GVA), a not for profit corporation providing public access to gun-related violence.