Police in a Seattle, US were looking for a gunman who shot a man in the arm and told him to "go back to your own country," the
A 39-year-old Sikh man (name is yet to be revealed) told police that he was working in his driveway about 8 p.m. Friday when the unknown man came up to him.
An argument ensued, and the suspect told him to go back to his homeland, the victim said. The victim told police the man then shot him in the arm, the reported.
The victim told police that the shooter is 6-foot-tall, white and has a stocky build. The victim said the man was wearing a mask covering the lower half of his face.
Kent police told the newspaper that the agency has contacted the FBI and other law enforcement agencies about the incident.
"We're early on in our investigation," Kent Police Chief Ken Thomas said Saturday morning. "We are treating this as a very serious incident."
"Some comments were made to the effect of 'get out of our country, go back to where you're from,' and our victim was then shot," Thomas .
Jasmit Singh, a leader of the Sikh community in the nearby suburb of Renton, said he had been told the victim was released from the hospital.
"He is just very shaken up, both him and his family," Singh told the newspaper. "We're all kind of at a loss in terms of what's going on right now, this is just bringing it home. The climate of hate that has been created doesn't distinguish between anyone."
The Washington state shooting comes just weeks after an Indian man in Kansas was killed and another was injured by a gunman who told them to “get out of my country” before opening fire in a bar.
