Thatikonda Aishwarya Reddy, 27, a resident of Hyderabad, has been identified as one of the eight victims of the Texas mall shooting on Saturday.
Aishwarya, the daughter of Rangareddy district and sessions judge T Narsi Reddy, had spent the previous five years in the United States. She was working as a project engineer with a local firm in Texas after earning her master’s degree in construction management from Eastern Michigan University in 2020. She graduated from Osmania University with a degree in civil engineering before moving to the United States in 2018.
Aishwarya was doing well in her career, according to a cousin in Saroornagar, and had recently received a promotion. She last spoke with her mother Aruna on the fateful evening, informing her that she was going to the mall with a male friend, according to her family. When the mother called back after learning about the Texas mall shooting , she received no response, and the phone was later turned off.
Another family member, N Ram Reddy, whose daughter lives in the United States, inquired the next morning with local district authorities and hospitals to confirm Aishwarya’s death. “We have no idea what happened, and we don’t want to talk about it.” “The family is in contact with Telugu NRI associations in the US and government officials to bring her body back,” a family member said, adding that the parents were in shock.
Her body is expected to arrive at her home by Wednesday.
Aishwarya last returned home in December to attend the wedding of her elder brother, Srikanth Reddy.
The Texas mall shooting was the latest in a string of mass killings in the United States at an unprecedented rate. A dashcam video of Texas mall shooting that circulated online showed a gunman getting out of a car and shooting at pedestrians. According to authorities, he was shot dead by a nearby police officer.
