A 27 year old Hyderabadi was brutally shot dead in Texas on Monday.
Aishwarya Thatikonda, 27, from Hyderabad was one of the nine individuals killed when a shooter opened fire at a busy mall in Dallas, Texas, in the US.
Aishwarya, a project engineer who works in Texas and resides in the US from the past five years, is the daughter of a district judge in Ranga Reddy district court.
A resident of Saroornagar in Hyderabad, Aishwarya is a graduate in civil engineering from a local university, and she had earned her master's degree in the US, where she had been employed for more than two years.
The news of her death reached the family on Sunday. Preparations were being made to send her body by Wednesday, according to the judge's acquaintance.
The incident occurred when Aishwarya and a friend were shopping at the Allen Premium Outlets in Dallas when they were shot by the assailant, according to the New York Post newspaper. On Saturday, about 3.30 PM, the gunfire broke out as the outdoor mall was packed with shoppers. According to the story, a police officer shot and killed the 33-year-old shooter.
