Sandeep a drug addict Sai Sandeep Goud Kurremula, the 27-year-old Hyderabadi, who stabbed Gundam Sankirth to death, is said to be a drug addict. “Austin police has established that Sai Sandeep was a regular drug abuser,” said Sankirth’s cousin A Saikanth. |
HYDERABAD: While the bereaved family of Gundam Sankirth, here in the city, wondered what led to his alleged murder, an affidavit for arrest and detention filed by the Austin Police Department before the Austin Municipal Court Magistrate in the United States reveals that it was a discussion between the accused and the victim on whose father was doing better in business back home that led to the incident.
In an on-camera recording of statement, as mentioned in the affidavit which is in the possession of Express, Kurremula Sai Sandeep Goud(27) told police that he along with Sankirth and Praneeth were drinking Budweiser beer on their apartment’s balcony.
In his statement recorded on camera, Sandeep explained that they were having a casual argument about which of their fathers was doing better. Sandeep admitted that he stabbed the victim but said that “he had a knife in his hand because he was cooking in the kitchen and was just trying to scare the victim and that he knew he was in a lot of trouble”.
Sandeep claimed he fell on the victim while holding the knife in his hand because he hit his leg on the victim’s leg and fell on the victim, stabbing him with the knife. Earlier, Sandeep had told police at the scene of offence that the victim had an accident in the kitchen of the apartment while cooking and had cut himself. He said he was on the balcony of the apartment when this happened and did not witness how the victim did this to himself. However, officers did not find any knife inside the apartment as told by him and observed blood on the balcony as well as on the broken beer bottles.
Stacci Hamilton, a witness, said she heard the youngsters on the balcony and heard someone “defensively screaming” and heard clamouring of beer bottles on the balcony. She told the detective on scene that “the noises she heard were consistent with a confrontation and she believed that if someone was hurt it was not due to an accident”. The statement of the other roommate Sai Praneeth Hanmandla was also recorded where he stated that he did not witness the incident as he was not on the balcony at the time of incident. The autopsy performed, on July 19, on the victim too concluded that the death was a homicide.