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Kanagala Seshadri Rao

Case from Boston, MA dated Apr 19, 2012

Victim Details

Kanagala Seshadri Rao

October 12, 2022

Male

Southwest Asian (Indian / Pakistani)

Boston

MA

2012-04-19

2012-04-19

24

Kanagala Seshadri

Rao

07/20/2026


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In the early morning hours of April 19, 2012, the life of Kanagala Seshadri Rao, a 24-year-old male graduate student from India, was tragically cut short on a street in the Allston neighborhood of Boston. Responding to a call at approximately 2:30 a.m., Boston police discovered Rao's body on the sidewalk of Allston Street, not far from the Commonwealth Avenue campus of Boston University where he was enrolled in the Graduate School of Management. He had sustained gunshot wounds to his head and le ...
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