GPS device-maker Garmin reeling after Kansas worker killed
(AP) — GPS device-maker Garmin long has revered diversity in its workforce, even when the locale of its ever-sprawling operational headquarters — a largely white Kansas City suburb — didn't reflect it.
By his wife's account Friday he willingly spent long hours on an aviation systems engineering team alongside Alok Madasani, a friend and colleague also 32 and from India.
[...] Garmin — a billion-dollar tech giant launched in Kansas as a startup by two men nearly three decades ago — now is reeling, trying to digest Kuchibhotla's shooting death Wednesday at a bar just a mile down the road from work.
Purinton, who was arrested hours later at a bar in Missouri, remains jailed on murder and attempted murder charges.
President Donald Trump has promised to ban certain travelers and been especially vocal about the threat posed by Islamic terrorist groups.
Roughly 2,800 workers are at the Kansas headquarters, which Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce spokeswoman Pam Whiting cast as regionally "one of our entrepreneurial success stories" and biggest employers.