LSU Shooting – Two grad students from India, both Ph D candidates, were shot in the head and killed last night during a home invasion robbery in an LSU graduate student apartment complex on campus.
Both students were shot once in the head execution style and authorities are searching for three suspects in the LSU shootings.
The shooting victims, Chandrasekhar Reddy Komma and Kiran Kumar Allam, both international Ph.D. students at LSU, were found inside an apartment at the Edward Gay complex late Thursday night after authorities received a call seeking medical attention.
The call that alerted police to the crime was made by Allam’s pregnant wife, who returned home and found the men dead, said Srinivasa Pothakamuri, a friend of Komma. Komma, a biochemstry student, was visiting the apartment at the time. Allam was in the chemistry program.
Pothakamuri said Komma’s wife contacted his wife Thursday night, worried that her husband hadn’t returned after what he had said would be a 10 minute trip to see Allam. “He never came home,” Pothakamuri said. They went to the apartment, and saw police.
Allam was found lying in a pool of blood just inside the apartment doorway. Komma had been tied up with a computer cable and then executed.
The apartment building where the shootings took place is designated for married and graduate students, and is near a field on the 2,000-acre campus where the university’s band practices. It is on the edge of the campus, close to one of Baton Rouge’s highest-crime areas.
The apartment complex where the LSU students were killed is a cluster of pale yellow cinderblock, three-story buildings and is within sight of the transition offices of Louisiana Governor-elect Bobby Jindal.
And that’s the sad news on the LSU shooting.
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