Adam Purinton appears by closed circuit TV in court from the Johnson County detention center Monday, Feb. 27, 2017 in Olathe, Kans. According to witnesses, Purinton yelled "get out of my country" at two... (Associated Press) 
 
 OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A bartender at the restaurant where a man was arrested last week for an apparently racially motivated bar shooting of two Indian men told a 911 dispatcher that the suspect admitted shooting two people, but described them as Iranian. 
 
 A recording from Henry County, Missouri, 911 reveals that the bartender warned police not to approach the building with sirens blaring or the man would "freak out" and "something bad's going to happen." 
 
 The man, Adam Purinton, 51, of Olathe, made his first appearance in court Monday via video link. He has been charged with first-degree murder and first-degree attempted murder. According to witnesses, Purinton yelled "get out of my country" at two 32-year-old Indian men, Srinivas Kuchibhotla and Alok Madasani, before he opened fire at Austin's Bar and Grill in the Kansas City suburb on Wednesday evening. 
 
 Kuchibhotla was killed and Madasani injured. The two had come to the U.S. from India to study, and they worked as engineers at GPS-maker Garmin. A third patron, Ian Grillot, 24, was wounded when he tried to intervene. 
 
 After the shooting, Purinton, who is white, drove 70 miles east to an Applebee's restaurant in Clinton, Missouri, where he made the shocking admission to the bartender. 
 
 In the 911 call, the bartender, Sam Suida, told the dispatcher a man had come into the bar and said he'd done something "really bad" and was on the run from the police. 
 
 "He asked if he could stay with me and my husband, and he wouldn't tell me what he did. I kept asking him, and he said that he would tell me if I agreed to let him stay with me," the bartender said. "Well, I finally got him to tell me and he said, like, that he shot and killed two Iranian people in Olathe...." 
 
 Authorities have declined to discuss a possible motive for the attack or to say if they are investigating it as a hate crime. But the incident has raised concern about the treatment of immigrants, who feel targeted by President Donald Trump's promises to ban certain travelers, build a wall along the Mexico border and put "America first." 
 
 During Monday's court appearance lasting less than two minutes, Purinton was seen wearing what was described by a sheriff's department spokesman as a "safety smock," assigned to suspects who said something during jail processing that suggested they might do harm to themselves. 
 
 Johnson County sheriff's Master Deputy Rick Howell would not disclose the comment by Purinton that raised concern, but said the suspect would wear the smock until mental health professionals say otherwise. 
 
 Andy Berthelsen, a neighbor of Purinton's for the past 15 years, told the AP that Purinton had become "a drunken mess" after his father's death about 18 months ago. He said he doesn't believe the shooting stemmed from hatred, and that it likely resulted from Purinton's physical and mental deterioration. 
 
 The University of Kansas Health System released a video Sunday of an interview with Grillot, of Grandview, Missouri, who is recovering after a bullet went through his right hand and into his chest. 
 
 Grillot said he had to do something because there were families and children in the bar when the gunfire erupted. Grillot said he is grateful that the attack is bringing the community together and that it is "awesome honestly to be able to give people a hope that not everybody hates everybody." 
 
 Madasani addressed a crowd of hundreds during a vigil Sunday night at the Ball Conference Center in Olathe, Kansas. 
 
 He described the killing of Kuchibhotla, his friend and co-worker, as "a senseless crime," the Kansas City Star reported (http://bit.ly/2mkJVIS ). 
 
 "The main reason why I am here is that's what my best friend, Srinivas, would have done," Madasani said. "He would have been here for me." 
 
 "I wish it was a dream," Madasani said. 
 
 Still walking on crutches, Madasani drew applause when he called the shooting "an isolated incident that doesn't reflect the true spirit of Kansas, the Midwest and the United States." 
 
 At the vigil, Madasani recalled how Kuchibhotla never complained about picking him up and driving him to work for six months. 
 
 "He waited till I bought a car. That's the kind of guy he was — is," Madasani said. ||||| A grieving, wailing mother. A stoic father. A wife numb with shock. And distraught family-members. Heartbreaking scenes unfolded at the house of Indian engineer Srinivas Kuchibhotla as his mortal remains arrived at his hometown late on Wednesday. 
 
 Kuchibhotla, 32, was shot dead by a US Navy veteran on Wednesday at a bar in Kansas in a possible hate crime. Kuchibhotla’s colleague Alok Madasani, also an Indian, and an American citizen, who tried to stop the shooter, were injured in the incident. 
 
 The last rites were performed at the Mahaprasthanam crematorium at Jubilee Hills later in the afternoon. 
 
 Kuchibhotla’s mother Parvatha Vardhini was inconsolable on seeing her son’s body which arrived in Hyderabad late on Monday night and brought to his parents’ residence at Bachupalli on the city outskirts. She continued to weep loudly as people helped her back into the house. 
 
 “I will not allow my younger son to go back to the US again. I want him and his family to return to Hyderabad for good.” 
 
 “He went to the US to serve that country. We were happy that one of the Kuchibhotla family went to the US for a better future. What was the crime he had committed for being killed?” 
 
 She said he would ask her younger son, Sai Kiran, who is also employed in the US, to return to India along with his family. 
 
 “I will not allow them to go back. I used to tell Srinivas also to return, if he felt insecure there. But he used to say he was very safe and secure,” she recalled. 
 
 Kuchibhotla’s father Madhusudhana Chary’s reaction was pragmatic as he looked at his son’s mortal remains – dressed in a black blazer, a red checked shirt and tie and kept in the air-conditioned box. 
 
 “I believe in the destiny. Whatever was destined to happen has happened. We only want that security of all our Indians working in the US should be taken care of,” he said. 
 
 Since the arrival of Kuchibhotla’s body at his residence last night, there has been a steady stream of visitors and VIPs including politicians to console the parents and his wife Sunayana Dumala. 
 
 Neighbours and family-members recalled how Kuchibhotla spent his days before leaving for the US 10 years ago. 
 
 “I just did not have the courage to see the body closely. It is heart-breaking to see him in this condition. He was always lively and smiling. But now, he is lying in a state of rest,” said his relative Venu Madhav.
– The mother of an Indian engineer shot to death in a Kansas bar is not just grieving for her son but worried about his younger brother. He, too, is working in the US, and his mother, Parvatha Vardhini, wants him to come home for his own safety. “I will not allow my younger son to go back to the US again," she says, per the Hindustan Times. "I want him and his family to return to Hyderabad for good.” Her older son, 32-year-old Srinivas Kuchibhotla, was killed last week by a gunman who witnesses say shouted, "Get out of my country," in the bar in the Kansas City suburb of Olathe. Adam Purinton, 51, has been arrested in the shooting, which also injured one of Kuchibhotla's friends, also Indian, as well as a bar patron who tried to intervene. Police say Purinton drove about 70 miles to an Applebee's in Missouri afterward and confessed the shooting to the bartender. Except, he seemed to believe he had shot Iranians, reports the AP, citing a 911 call. In it, the bartender says Purinton came in, claimed to have done something "really bad," and asked to hide out. "Well, I finally got him to tell me and he said, like, that he shot and killed two Iranian people in Olathe.” The mother of Kuchibhotla, whose body was being cremated in India on Tuesday, says she had worried about him. "I had asked him to return to India if he was feeling insecure there," she recalls. "But he used to say he was safe and secure."