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MTSU Student Shot Outside Apartment

22-Year-Old Traveled From India To Get His MBA

POSTED: 4:31 pm CST November 17, 2008
UPDATED: 7:18 pm CST November 17, 2008

A Middle Tennessee State University student studying to get his MBA was shot outside his apartment door.

Video: Student Shot In Liver Outside Apartment

Shashank Pulluru, 22, went to MTSU from India last year to get his MBA.

Pulluru was living with five others from his hometown in India who came to study. His roommates said they didn't realize Pulluru had been shot in the liver when he first ran through the front door of their apartment, and they didn't know who shot him.

"Immediately after the gunshot," said an unidentified witness, "I went to the door. He kept repeating over and over, 'I'm done.'"

Pulluru lives just across the street from MTSU, and he had come around the corner to a convenience store before he was shot Saturday night.

He is the second student shot at in less than two weeks.

MTSU student Elizabeth Pittenger was walking to her car on campus when a man confronted her and demanded her purse, cell phone and laptop. The man shot at Pittenger before fleeing, police said, but they said the contents of her purse stopped the bullet from piercing her waist. She was not harmed.

Police found the .38 caliber handgun beneath a parked van near the scene.

"It's scary to be out here and be a girl," said Kate Luker, an MTSU student. "I don't know what I would do if somebody shot at me."

Luker had her own scare the other day. She said her boyfriend had a laptop in the front seat of his truck at her apartment, left it for two minutes and someone stole it.

"He chased after him, and the guy fell and dropped the computer. So he ended up getting it back, but it was scary," she said. "I don't go out after dark unless I have somebody with me or am talking to somebody on the phone or something."

Pulluru was in stable condition Monday in a Nashville hospital.

Police have no leads or motives right now.


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