Time magazine honours Kansas shooting hero Ian Grillot who took bullet for Kuchibotla

Time magazine has honoured Ian Grillot, the US national who took a bullet for an Indian while trying to intervene during a racially-motivated shooting in Kansas early this year.

Grillot’s name features in the magazine among “5 Heroes Who Gave Us Hope in 2017.”

Grillot, then 24, was injured when he tried to intervene in the shooting by a Navy veteran targeting Indians at a bar in Olathe,



Kansas, in February.

Srinivas Kuchibhotla, 32 , was killed in the shooting that also left his colleague Alok Madasani, critically injured.

“I wouldn’t have been able to live with myself if I didn’t do anything,” Grillot said in an article posted by Time on Thursday.

The magazine saluted the Kansas man as the “bargoer who stepped into the line of fire.”