KANSAS CITY, Mo. _ Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on President Donald Trump to speak out against hate crimes in the wake of the murder of an Indian engineer last week in Kansas.
Trump has yet to comment on the Olathe shooting, which also left two other victims injured. His press secretary, Sean Spicer, said last week that it was too early to call the act a hate crime.
Clinton, Trump's Democratic opponent in the recent presidential election, took to social media Monday and called on Trump to take action.
"With threats & hate crimes on rise, we shouldn't have to tell @POTUS to do his part. He must step up & speak out," Clinton said on Twitter.
Clinton posted a link to a Kansas City Star article in which Srinivas Kuchibhotla's widow, Sunayana Dumala, said she needed an answer on how the U.S. government would work to stop hate crimes.
Adam W. Purinton, the alleged gunman, told Kuchibhotla and Alok Madasani, two Garmin engineers from India, to "get out of my country" before opening fire at Austins Bar & Grill on Wednesday evening, according to witness accounts.
Ian Grillot, a 24-year-old Grandview, Kan., man, intervened and was also shot. He continues to improve while hospitalized, the University of Kansas Health System said in an update Sunday.
