Srinivas Kuchibhotla, 32, was working as an aviation engineer at technology company Garmin, accompanied by his friend Alok Madasani who was injured in the attack were enjoying their evening in a local sports bar in Olathe on Wednesday when Purinto confronted them with racial abuses.
Ian Grillot, a passer-by who intervened to save them was also injured in the shooting.
Purinton was arrested early in the Thursday morning from a restaurant when he revealed the news to a barkeeper that he had killed two ‘Middle Eastern’ men which was 80 miles away from the bar where Srinivas was shot dead.