A 28-year-old Indian student, hailing from Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh, was shot dead in a store robbery in Okhlama City in California.

Identified as Prasanth Goinaka, the victim was a student of International Technology University at Sunnyvale, California. A resident of Dilkush Nagar in Hyderabad, Prasanth had taken up a part time job in a convenience store three days ago in the Okhlama City of Okhlama. He had come to the US just two months ago.