An Indian engineer from Andhra Pradesh was shot dead by unidentified assailants at Atlanta in the US where by a tragic coincidence eight young students and professionals from this state have been killed in the last 15 months. R Sudhir Kumar (31),a native of West Godavari district,was killed at Atlanta,where he was working as a mechanical engineer with Toyota company,West Godavari district Superintendent of Police,B Balakrishna told PTI. Kumar was reportedly killed for money,he said,but did not have details including when the incident happened. Kumar did his engineering course in the US eight years ago and was working with Toyota for the last four years,he said. In a string of tragedies where ironically those hailing from AP met a violent end in the US in the last 15 months,software engineer N Akshay Vishal working with fraud-hit Satyam Computers was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Arkansas on January 13 last. Arpana B Jinaga,an IT engineer in Seattle,was found dead under mysterious circumstances in her apartment on November 3,2008. An engineering student in Southern Illinois University T Soumya Reddy was found murdered in September last. Her cousin Vikram Reddy,also a software engineer in Chicago,was also found dead nearby.
