Capital charges against two for murder of U.S Indian student
By siliconindia   |   Wednesday, 05 January 2011, 10:59 IST
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Texas: Two men have been accused and filed capital charges against by U.S. authorities for the fatal shooting of a 22-year-old Indian student during a 20-second robbery 'blitz' at a Pasadena convenience store in Texas on Christmas day, reports South Asian Times. Daniel Jacob Stiner, 22, and Michael Ray Morris, 29, both from Pasadena, were charged in the death of Jayachandra Elaprolu, a computer engineer, who worked as a convenience store clerk. Elaprolu, who was living in the Seabrook area, working on a master's degree in computer engineering at the University of Houston-Clear Lake died on the Christmas day and his remains were sent back home with the help of the Indian consulate. Police yesterday said Stiner surrendered and took investigators to the Conroe area, where he told them that he would recover the mask he used in the violent 'blitz' robbery, so-called for its lightning-fast execution. He also promised to get the USD 400 he stole from the register. The police said that Morris has maintained that he was strictly a customer in the store during the 2:30am shooting, in the wrong place at the wrong time. He further protested to police and a local TV station that he had been wrongly implicated in the incident, much of which was captured on surveillance video.

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