Kerala-origin man shoots wife, injures 2 in United States church shootout
A violent domestic quarrel stretching from California to India to New Jersey over the past year resulted in tragedy on Sunday morning for families of three migrant nurses from Kottayam in central Kerala.
Pallipurath Joseph, 27, walked into the small St Thomas Syrian Orthodox Knanaya Church, set up by Malayali migrants, in Clifton, New Jersey, during Sunday service and killed his estranged 24-year-old wife and wounded two others with shots to the head.
As more than 100 worshippers dived under the pews, the assailant fired four shots from a silver handgun, striking his wife, who had refused to leave the church with him a relative who had recently taken her in and a man who either happened upon or tried to intervene in the confrontation, the police and witnesses said.
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Pallipurath Joseph, 27, walked into the small St Thomas Syrian Orthodox Knanaya Church, set up by Malayali migrants, in Clifton, New Jersey, during Sunday service and killed his estranged 24-year-old wife and wounded two others with shots to the head.
As more than 100 worshippers dived under the pews, the assailant fired four shots from a silver handgun, striking his wife, who had refused to leave the church with him a relative who had recently taken her in and a man who either happened upon or tried to intervene in the confrontation, the police and witnesses said.
To read the full article, click here..
To read the epaper, visit:
http://epaper.indianexpress.com/IE/IEH/2008/11/25/index.shtml
Labels: california, Clifton, India, Kerala, Malayali migrants, New Jersey, St Thomas Syrian Orthodox Knanaya Church, three migrant nurses from Kottayam, violent domestic quarrel
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