Hyderabad boy killed in US; roommate held

A 24-year-old software engineer from Kachiguda was allegedly killed by his roommate in Austin in the US, his family said here on Tuesday.

The victim, identified as Gundam Sankeerth, allegedly stabbed to death by his roommate Sai Sandeep Goud. Goud, 27, is also from Hyderabad.  

“Today morning we got a call from our relatives and Pranith, one of his friends, that Sankeerth was stabbed by one Sai Sandeep Goud, a roommate, on Monday,” Sankeerth’s uncle Srinivas said on Tuesday.

Sankeerth died while being shifted to a hospital and the accused had been taken into custody by the local police, Srinivas said.