Palanpur: A Non-Resident Gujarati (NRG) from Kadi taluka in Mehsana district was shot dead by two armed robbers in a grocery store located in Macon city of Georgia in the US on Wednesday morning.Alpesh Prajapati (36), who was working as Gulf Mart store clerk on Napier Avenue in Macon, was attacked by two masked men when he had opened the store on Tuesday morning. The Bibb County Sheriff’s office investigating the shooting said, “Two masked gunmen had entered the store and a short time later the clerk (Prajapati) was shot. The two masked gunmen fled the store in an unknown direction.”When the cops arrived, Alpesh was lying on the floor in a pool of blood just inside the front door. Alpesh was transported to the hospital where he succumbed to gun wounds on Wednesday morning.The news of Alpesh’s death reached his native village of Kaiyyal in Kadi taluka, 37km from Mehsana, on Thursday, leaving his relatives and the villagers in a state of shock. According to family members, Alpesh had settled in the US seven years ago and was unmarried. He was to come to India for engagement in couple of months, one of his family friends Jayatibhai Prajapati said.Jayantibhai said Aplesh’s father Ranchhodbhai, his elder bother Sanjay have started preparing to leave for the US for final rituals.

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