Virginia. A 56-year-old Indian-Origin person and her 24-year-old daughter were shot dead inside a shopping center in Virginia, America. The police have arrested a suspect in connection with the firing. When the firing incident took place, Pradeep Kumar Patel and his daughter were working in the store on Lankford Highway in Ekomac County. The Ekomac County is located on the east coast of Virginia.

According to US media reports, the Ekomac County Sheriff Office said that the firing incident was reported after 5:30 am on March 20, on which the deputy was sent to the spot. It states that when they arrived, the representatives found an irresponsible person suffering from gunshot wounds.

The statement of the Sheriff Office said that when the policemen reached the spot, a person was found lying on the floor in the shopping center, there were marks of bullet wounds on his body and he had died. During the search of the shopping center, policemen also found a woman injured by bullet. The person was declared dead at the scene of the incident. At the same time, the woman was taken to the Centra Norfolk General Hospital, where she died.

One suspect arrested in firing incident
According to W. Tod Wesels, an officer of the Ekomac County Sheriff Office, a suspect has been arrested in connection with the shootout at Virginia's shopping center. He has been identified as 44 -year -old George Fragier Dewon Wharton, a resident of Onanakock and is currently kept in Ekomac Jail without bonds. He has been accused in the sections of murder, atampt to murder effort, keeping an illegal gun and the use of deadly weapons in crime.

Indians living in US are shocked by the incident
The purpose of firing has not been revealed. Wavy-TV, a television station in Virginia, said that Paresh Patel has described himself as the owner of the store in which the incident happened. He also confirmed that both the deceased were members of his family. Paresh said, 'When my cousin's wife and her father were working in the store this morning, some people came here and they shot both. I do not understand what I do now. This incident has shocked the members of the Indian community living in America.