The youthful son of Indian techie Harshavardhana S Kikkeri was not at residence when he reportedly shot and killed his spouse and his elder son after which shot himself in a tragedy that passed off in Seattle’s King County Monday. Shwetha Panyam, 41, and Dhruva Kikkeri, 14, died from gunshot wounds. Panyam’s and Dhruva’s deaths have been categorized as homicides. Harshavardhana Kikkeri, 44, died by suicide, in keeping with the medical expert’s workplace, the Seattle Occasions reported.
Alex Gumina, the house owner affiliation president, mentioned a household of 4 — a husband, spouse and their two sons — lived within the residence and largely saved to themselves. The youthful son, seven years outdated, escaped the tragedy as he was not at residence at the moment.
What occurred to Harsha Kikkeri, a celebrated techie?
Many questions stay unanswered as Harsha Kikkeri, the CEO of HoloWorld, a robotics firm which is headquartered in Myrsuru city, was generally known as a shiny and promising thoughts who completed so much. Cricketer Yuvraj Singh funded his group and was additionally the model ambassador. A 2017 selfie that he took with Bollywood actor Aishwarya Rai surfaced on social media displaying the prominence that he loved in India. Harsha met Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a Digital India summit.
On the night time of the capturing, authorities have been known as to the townhouse on 129th Road after receiving a 911 name. The KING 5 tv station mentioned its crew noticed a toddler — the youthful son of the Kikkeri household — being escorted from the house and comforted by investigators.
The detectives discovered blood on the entrance window and a lone hole level bullet on the street.
Kikkeri who belonged to the Kikkeri village in Madya, graduated from Sri Jayachamarajendra Faculty of Engineering in Mysuru, and labored with Microsoft within the US, specializing in robotics. He additionally had a Grasp of Science diploma from Syracuse College, US. Kikkeri held 44 worldwide patents and labored in Infosys as a software program engineer earlier than shifting to the US.
In line with reviews, he returned to India in 2017 alongside together with his spouse and co-founded HoloWorld. Then he invented HoloSuit, an AI-powered full-body movement seize swimsuit functioning as a digital coach.
