23-year-old Hyderabad student shot dead in US

23-year-old student from Hyderabad was shot dead by unidentified gunman in the United States, according to his family.

The victim Sai Kiran Goud of Kushaiguda, Hyderabad was killed by a group of unidentified men in Miami, Florida, on Sunday, it said.

Kiran was apparently waylaid by a group of suspected robbers. When he refused to hand over his iPhone, a gunman opened fire, killing him instantaneously.

The victim had gone to the US last month and was pursuing his masters in a university in Miami.

The news shocked Kiran’s parents and other family members. A pall of gloom descended on the house of the youth in Kushaiguda area.

Kiran’s family has appealed to the Telangana and the central governments to help bring the body home.

Meanwhile Kiran’s friends in US alleged that some Anglo-Americans residing in the same apartment could be behind the murder.