{"id":12472,"date":"2023-11-09T10:15:08","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T10:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/09\/who-was-varun-raj-pucha-indian-student-stabbed-in-us-gym-attacker-found-him-weird-say-cops-n-f-times\/"},"modified":"2023-11-09T10:15:11","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T10:15:11","slug":"who-was-varun-raj-pucha-indian-student-stabbed-in-us-gym-attacker-found-him-weird-say-cops-n-f-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/09\/who-was-varun-raj-pucha-indian-student-stabbed-in-us-gym-attacker-found-him-weird-say-cops-n-f-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Who was Varun Raj Pucha? Indian student stabbed in US gym, attacker found him \u2018weird\u2019, say cops &#8211; N.F Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<p>New Delhi: A 24-year-old Indian student who was stabbed in his head at fitness centre in United States, succumbed to his injuries at the hospital on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Varun Raj Pucha, the computer science student at Valparaiso University was stabbed with a knife in his head at the public gym on October 29. After days of hospitalization, the Indian student lost battle with life and dies of knife injuries in his head.<\/p>\n<p>The assailant was identified as another 24-year-old American Jordan Andrade, who didn\u2019t know the victim but yet attacked with a fatal blow on his head.<\/p>\n<p>The university bemoaning over Varun\u2019s death, said in a statement, \u201cIt is with heavy hearts that we share the passing of Varun Raj Pucha. Our campus community has lost one of its own, and our thoughts and prayers go out to Varun\u2019s family and friends as we mourn this devastating loss.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Accused Jordan Andrade has been booked for murder charges. He however told the police that he acted in self-defence as Varun was going to \u2018assassinate him\u2019.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">When Varun Raj Pucha moved to US?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Varun Raj Pucha, a native of Telangana\u2019s Khammam district had moved to United States for pursuing his computer education, last year.<\/p>\n<p>He went to US in August 2022 and was pursuing MS in Computer Science from the Valparaiso University. Though, trial proceedings into Varun\u2019s murder will go on, the university has announced a memorial service for him in the campus on November 16.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5287546\" src=\"https:\/\/newsroompost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Indian-student-stabbed-in-US-1.jpg\" alt=\"Indian student stabbed in US\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsroompost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Indian-student-stabbed-in-US-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/newsroompost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Indian-student-stabbed-in-US-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsroompost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Indian-student-stabbed-in-US-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newsroompost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Indian-student-stabbed-in-US-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsroompost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Indian-student-stabbed-in-US-1-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"\/><\/noscript>How Indian student was stabbed?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>As per initial police findings, the duo didn\u2019t know each other. Varun was a regular gym visitor while Andrade walked one day into the fitness centre and stabbed him in the head as he found the Indian student \u2018weird\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Varun was in the Planet Fitness gym when Andrade walked into the massage room. Andrade told police that he felt threatened by the \u2018weird looking\u2019 man and reacted in self-defence.<\/p>\n<p>Andrade told police that someone told him that this man was a \u2018threat\u2019 and that\u2019s why he attacked him without any provocation.<\/p>\n<p>The gym staff, when quizzed by the cops, also corroborated this act. They said that Varun was a regular gym member and he often kept to himself and his exercises.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old accused told cops that he used to keep knife in his pocket for opening boxes at his workplace.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">What accused said during interrogation?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Jordan Andrade, during interrogation told police that when he went to the massage room of gym, he saw a man sitting there.<\/p>\n<p>He didn\u2019t know Varun but found him \u2018little weird\u2019, he told the cops. He said that Varun was like a \u2018potential threat\u2019 to him and he \u2018eliminated\u2019 him for his safety.<\/p>\n<p>When he was asked about reasons behind stabbing, Andrade reportedly said, \u201cUh, I just put it through. I don\u2019t even want to say it. It was in his head.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] New Delhi: A 24-year-old Indian student who was stabbed in his head at fitness centre in United States, succumbed to his injuries at the hospital on Wednesday. Varun Raj Pucha, the computer science student at Valparaiso University was stabbed with a knife in his head at the public gym on October 29. After days [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12474,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12472\/revisions\/12474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}