Kansas, September 15: An Indian-origin psychiatrist Dr. Achutha N Reddy was stabbed to death in Kansas, the United States, on Thursday. The Wichita police have arrested a 21-year-old Umar Rashid Dutt in connection with the murder of the 57-year-old and charged him with first-degree murder. Reddy was found with multiple stab wounds near the Holistic Psychiatric Services building on Carriage Parkway in East Wichita. Although the motive for the murder is unclear, police say that Reddy’s killing does not appear to be a hate crime.
The US police said that they found Reddy’s body in an alley behind his clinic. Police said that the attacker “repeatedly stabbed the doctor after a conversation”. The clinic manager had seen Reddy being assaulted by a man, police said. The suspected accused even tried to chase the doctor when he tried to escape. Accused Dutt was arrested at a country club after a security guard saw him sitting in a car in the parking with blood on him.
Lt Todd Ojile of the Wichita police department said, “A short time after officers arrived, at approximately 7:40, they were dispatched to a suspicious character call at the Wichita Country Club. The security guard at the country club observed an individual sitting in the car in the parking lot with blood on (him),” reports HT.
Alumni of Osmania Medical College, Dr. Reddy graduated in 1986 and later moved to the United States. He completed his residency in psychiatry at the University of Kansas Medical School in Wichita, and began practicing in 1989. Reddy was running the Holistic Psychiatric Services in Wichita.
In February 2017, Indian-origin man Srinivas Kuchibotla was killed by a man who shouted: “Get out of my country”.
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