A youth from Telangana was critically injured when unidentified assailants fired at him in the United States, his family said here on Thursday.
Mubeen Ahmed (26), a native of Sangareddy district, was on June 4 shot twice in the stomach at a California store where he works, though the family came to know about it only on Thursday.
The family said that some men went to the store posing as customers and got into an argument with Mubeen before firing at him.
Victim’s uncle Mufti Aslam Osman said Mubeen was about to finish his duty at the store and return to his apartment in Fremont, when a few black persons stormed his place and demanded of him money and his mobile phone.
“Apparently, an argument ensued between him and the miscreants when one of them opened fire at him, before fleeing the spot,” Osman told.
“He was immediately rushed to Eden Medical Centre in Castro Valley. The bullets pierced into his abdomen and liver,” he added.
Mubeen’s friends alerted a couple of his relatives in Chicago and they reached California to attend to him. “He is said to be on a ventilator and his condition is critical,” Osman said.
Mubeen’s father Mujeeb Ahmed, who works at a military institution in Secunderabad, is making arrangements to leave for the US.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj called for a report from the Indian Embassy in the US.
The Telangana government is arranging for passports for Mubeen's family members to enable them to fly to the US.
A son of Indian Air Force employee Mujeeb Ahmed, Mubeen went to the US in February 2015 and completed his academic course. He had started working in a private store on the outskirts of California.
