Indian Sikh reports being shot in arm; police seek suspect

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Police in a Seattle suburb say they are seeking a white gunman after an Indian Sikh man reported he was shot in the arm and told to “go back to your own country.”
India’s foreign minister said on Twitter early Sunday that the victim is identified as Deep Rai and that he told police he was working in his driveway on Friday when the unidentified man approached him. “I am sorry to know about the attack on Deep Rai, a U.S. national of Indian origin,” Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj said. He added that he had spoken with the father of the victim.
Rai told police in the Seattle suburb of Kent that the shooter is a 6-foot-tall, white man with a stocky build, according to The Seattle Times. He said the man was wearing a mask covering the lower half of his face. South Asians have been on edge after a deadly shooting in a suburban Kansas City bar that the FBI is investigating as a hate crime. Authorities said witnesses to the shooting, which left an Indian man dead and another wounded, reported the suspect yelled “get out of my country” before he opened fire.
In suburban Seattle, Rai told police the suspect said he should go back to his homeland and the two got into an argument, according to The Seattle Times.