Gunman kills Gujarat woman working at store in US

A masked assailant entered a supermarket successful the US authorities of Virginia and changeable dormant Meghna Patel, a 47-year-old from Gujarat employed astatine the store, during a suspected robbery attempt.Shot astatine adjacent range, Meghna succumbed to injuries earlier assistance could arrive. A autochthonal of Jantral colony successful Mehsana district, she had been surviving successful the US for 10 years with her hubby Upendra Patel and 2 children.The cold-blooded sidesplitting connected May 23, caught connected the store's surveillance cameras, has sent shockwaves successful the Gujarati assemblage successful Virginia and successful Meghna's autochthonal village. CCTV footage shows the masked antheral entering the store, concisely looking astir and walking up to the counter, past pulling retired a firearm concealed adjacent his waist and firing aggregate rounds, earlier fleeing the spot.

Sources said the full incidental unfolded wrong 26 seconds.Local constabulary rushed to the country and cordoned disconnected the area. Investigators are examining CCTV footage and questioning witnesses to found the motive down the killing.Jantral, wherever Meghna's parents live, has drowned successful sorrow. Family members said she had moved to the US a decennary agone for a amended future. Her father, Karsan Patel, told TOI, "Upendra had dropped Meghna astatine the store 30 minutes earlier the shooting. The 2 worked successful antithetic stores to gain their livelihood." According to him, the assailant had changeable idiosyncratic else, too, successful the vicinity astir an hr earlier. Authorities US are yet to officially disclose the nonstop circumstances surrounding the shooting.